The Major Works

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OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
W. B. Yeats
The Major Works
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edward Larrissy
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose—all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters— to give the essence of his work and thinking,
W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Cwssways and the symbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
W. B. Yeats
The Major Works
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edward Larrissy
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose—all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters— to give the essence of his work and thinking,
W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Cwssways and the symbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occult writings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of letters.
This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.
INTRODUCTION • CHRONOLOGY
TEXTUAL NOTE • BIBLIOGRAPHY EXPLANATORY NOTES • INDEX Vissza