Books by W. B. Yeats

A documentary edition of Yeats's 1932 play that traces multiple textual revisions.

Both At the Hawk's Well (1917) and The Cat and the Moon (1924) dramatize their characters' journeys of the soul to magic wells. The Cornell Yeats edition of these plays presents photographs and transcriptions of the typescripts in various revisions.

Written during a period of illness in 1935-1936, Yeats's play combines frank sexual content with bizarre imagery from the Indian and tribal Irish traditions. This edition provides a full transcription of the only extant manuscript version of the play.

Covers a tumultuous period in WB Yeats' public and personal life, beginning with the acrimonious collapse of Maud Gonne's marriage to Major MacBride, and encompassing the fiery disputes in the Abbey Theatre as it changed from an amateur society into a professional company.

Showing both the political fervour and the poetic sensibility, this collection of letters represent Yeats' as friend, adversary, critic, and man passionately involved in the state of Ireland, culturally and politically. It is suitable to those interested in the development of modern poetry, drama, and cultural history.

Featuring letters that cover a formative period in W B Yeats' political career, and the beginning of his theatrical involvement, this work appeals to those interested in modern poetry, Irish drama, and cultural history. In each letter, Yeat's private concerns, artistic quarrels and exhausting political life are revealed.

An illustrated collection of forty of Yeats' best-loved works, on topics including Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.

A unique selection of Yeats's major poems, plays, criticism and other prose writings, showing the connectedness of his literary output. Formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series.

The Cornell Yeats edition of this play contains transcriptions and photographic reproductions of the drafts with variant readings from proofs, typescripts, and notebook entries, as well as other materials pertaining to its writing and performance.

The manuscripts transcribed and reproduced in this volume of the Cornell Yeats were written from spring 1933 through December 1934.

Includes manuscript materials of both "The Only Jealousy of Emer," a turning point in Yeats's career as an artist, and its later (and lesser, according to Yeats) prose version, "Fighting the Waves."

This edition of the manuscripts of "Deirdre" presents the transcription of work from three substantially different versions of the play through its first performance, together with post-performance revisions.

The Cornell Yeats edition of this play about a bard's hunger strike includes the preliminary notes and first prose drafts dictated by Yeats to his patron and collaborator, Lady Gregory, in March and April 1903.

This volume presents the surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and early printed texts for all of the poems W. B. Yeats included at one time or another in these two two remarkably significant and protean collections.

The four short works collected in this book were among the earliest plays to be authored collaboratively by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, written during the pivotal years of the "Irish Literary Theatre" experiment of 1899-1901.

A work of scholarship.

This is the definitive collection of his poems, encompassing the full range of his powers, from the love lyrics to the political poems, from poems meditating on the bliss of youth, to the verse that rails against old age.

W. B. Yeats anses for at være en af de mest betydningsfulde engelske forfattere i det 20 århundrede. Han deltog i den irske frihedsbevægelse. DRØMMERIER OVER BARNEÅR OG UNGDOM er en erindringsroman der giver et rigtigt godt indblik i irske forhold.