Books in the The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats series

This volume in The Collected Edition of the Works of W.B.Yeats brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions written for anthologies that he edited or for books by other writers. Their topics range from Irish legends and folklore to the design of graceful new Irish coins.

John Sherman is the only work of realistic fiction Yeats ever completed. The novelette contains many biographical elements and is of interest for its treatment of Yeats's recurring themes. Dhoya depicts a liaison between a mortal and a fairy, a motif that recurs in Yeats's poetry and other works.

Newly edited, annotated, and introduced by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer, Letters to the New Island offers a fresh glimpse of Yeats as an active polemicist, critic and all-round man of letters.