This selection of 239 poems is supported by a critical introduction, very full explanatory notes, a bibliographical summary of Yeats's life, maps, a glossary of Irish names and places and their pronunciation and a bibliography. For this second edition, the notes have been thoroughly revised and updated.

 

There are 428 pages in this book. This book was published 1988 by Macmillan Education UK .

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin and was educated in Ireland and England. An Irish poet, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, he was instrumental in the development of a national Irish theatre - and in particular the founding of the Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. A. NORMAN JEFFARES is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling. He has taught at the Universities of Dublin, Groningen, Edinburgh, Adelaide and Leeds. He has edited and written many books on Irish and other authors, and is General Editor of the Macmillan History of Literature, to which he has contributed Anglo-Irish Literature (1982). Macmillan also publish his New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (1984).

This book has the following chapters: Introduction. - Abbreviations. - Acknowledgements. - PART 1: POEMS. - The Craft of Poetry. - Dreams
. - Irish Mythology Revived. - Friends and Friendship. - Irish Characters and Places. - The Poet's Family. - Moods and Meditations. - Irish Narrative Poems. - Anglo-Irish Attitudes. - Love and Sex. - The Supernatural. - Form the Plays. - Idiosyncrasies and Grotesqueries. - Arcadian and Indian Poems. - The Thought of A Vision. - Adaptations and Translations. - Age and After. - Politics and Polemics. - Bibliographical Summary. - Notes. - Appendices. - Bibliography. - Indexes.