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Informationen zum Autor WILLIAM H. O'DONNELL is Professor and Chair at the Department of English, Memphis State University. Klappentext The Later Essays brings together twenty-one essays and introductions published by Yeats after 1912. The volume includes his controversial introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse , first published in 1936. Covering a range of subjects from Shelley to Balzac, from the mystical experience to Irish politics, the essays are a testament to the breadth of Yeats's interests and obsessions. This definitive edition provides full explanatory textual notes and a preface by leading Yeats scholar, William H O'Donnell. Zusammenfassung The Later Essays brings together twenty-one essays and introductions published by Yeats after 1912. The volume includes his controversial introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse , first published in 1936. Covering a range of subjects from Shelley to Balzac, from the mystical experience to Irish politics, the essays are a testament to the breadth of Yeats's interests and obsessions. This definitive edition provides full explanatory textual notes and a preface by leading Yeats scholar, William H O'Donnell. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Preface List of Abbreviations Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1917) If I were Four-and-Twenty (1919) Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places (w.1914), in Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland , by Lady Gregory (1920) Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore (w.1914), in Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, by Lady Gregory (1920) ESSAYS 1931 TO 1936 Preface to Essays 1931 to 1936 (1937) Parnell (w.1936; publ; 1937) Modern Poetry: A Broadcast (1936) Bishop Berkeley: Introduction to Bishop Berkeley , by Joseph M. Hone and Mario M. Rossi (1931) My Friend's Book (1932): Review of Song and its Fountains , by AE (George Russell) Prometheus Unbound (w. 1932; publ. 1933) Louis Lambert (w. 1933; publ. 1934) Introduction to An Indian Monk: An Indian Monk: His Life and Adventures , by Shri Purohit Swãmi (1932) Introduction to The Holy Mountain: The Holy Mountain: Being the Story of a Pilgrimage to Lake Mãnas and of Initiation on Mount Kailãs in Tibet, by Bhagwãn Shri Hamsa, tr. Shri Purohit Swãmi (1934) Introduction to 'Mandukya Upanishad' (1935) Gitanjali: Introduction to Gitanjali (Song Offerings ), by Rabindranath Tagore (1912) The Ten Principal Upanishads (w. 1936; dated 1937) Preface to The Ten Principal Upanishads , tr. Shree Purohit Swãmi and W.B. Yeats (1937) Aphorisms of Yoga: Introduction to Aphorisms of Yôga , by Bhagwãn Shree Patanjali, tr. Shree Purohit Swãmi (1938) Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) Introduction (w. 1937): For the never-published Charles Scribner's Sons 'Dublin Edition' of W.B. Yeats; published in Essays and Introductions (1961) as 'A General Introduction for my Work' Introduction to Essays (w. 1937): For the never-published Charles Scribner's Sons 'Dublin Edition' of W.B. Yeats; published in Essays and Introductions (1961) On the Boiler (w. 1938; publ. 1939) APPENDICES 'Epilogue' (unadopted manuscript, c . 1917) to Per Amica Silentia Lunae Alternative ending (unadopted typescript, 1919-20?) for 'If I were Four-and-Twenty' Notes (w. 1914) to Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland , by Lady Gregory (1920) Deleted typescript section i, 'Introduction', of 'Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places', perhaps originally intended to introduce the entire collection Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (w. 1911-14; dated 14 October 1914) Postscript to the introduction to Bishop Berkeley, by Joseph M. Hone and Mario M. Rossi (1931) 'A Biographical Note', in The Holy Mountain , by Bhagwãn Shri Hamsa, tr. Shri Purohit Swãmi (1934) Final paragraph of introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) Notes Textual Introductions Copy-Texts used for this Edition Emendations to the Copy-Texts Index...
