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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
