內容簡介
ers and students of Yeats have long wondered which of the many avail-able editions of his poems they should use. James Pethica has solved their problems with Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose. This offers not only the familiar riches of a Norton Critical Edition (available in no other edition), but a brilliant innovation both early and late texts of certain poems--to illustrate the devel-opment of the greatest twentieth-century poet of our language."This Norton Critical Edition of Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose represents a major new addition to the series.
The texts include a comprehensive selection of William Butler Yeats's major writings spanning his entire career: 145 poems from Crossways (1889) through Last Poems (1939), including 5 poems in both early, and revised versions; the plays Cathleen ni Houihau, Ou Baile's Strand, At the Hand& Well, and Purga-tou; prose fiction and folklore writings from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, and Stories of Red Haurahan; autobiographical writings from Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) through the posthumously published Memoirs (1972); and selections from his most important critical writings. The texts are carefully annotated by the editor, James Pethica.ers and students of Yeats have long wondered which of the many avail-able editions of his poems they should use. James Pethica has solved their problems with Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose. This offers not only the familiar riches of a Norton Critical Edition (available in no other edition), but a brilliant innovation both early and late texts of certain poems--to illustrate the devel-opment of the greatest twentieth-century poet of our language."This Norton Critical Edition of Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose represents a major new addition to the series.
The texts include a comprehensive selection of William Butler Yeats's major writings spanning his entire career: 145 poems from Crossways (1889) through Last Poems (1939), including 5 poems in both early, and revised versions; the plays Cathleen ni Houihau, Ou Baile's Strand, At the Hand& Well, and Purga-tou; prose fiction and folklore writings from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, and Stories of Red Haurahan; autobiographical writings from Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) through the posthumously published Memoirs (1972); and selections from his most important critical writings. The texts are carefully annotated by the editor, James Pethica.
The volume also includes critical responses to Yeats's work by contempo-raries such as Oscar Wilde, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and T. S. Eliot, and by major recent critics such as Helen Vendler, Declan Kiberd, Harold Bloom, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Roy Foster, Richard Ellmann, and Seamus Heaney
A chronology of Yeats's Iife and work, a selected bibliographv and an index of poems and first lines are also included.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text,contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations--from contem-porary perspectives to the most current critical theory--as well as a bibliography and, in many cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.
COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of Yeats by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Courtesy of George Eastman House.
作者簡介：JAMES PETHICA has taught at Williams College and at the Uni-versity of Richmond. Currently a Fellow at the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, he is at work on the authorized biography of Lady Gregory.
The texts include a comprehensive selection of William Butler Yeats's major writings spanning his entire career: 145 poems from Crossways (1889) through Last Poems (1939), including 5 poems in both early, and revised versions; the plays Cathleen ni Houihau, Ou Baile's Strand, At the Hand& Well, and Purga-tou; prose fiction and folklore writings from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, and Stories of Red Haurahan; autobiographical writings from Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) through the posthumously published Memoirs (1972); and selections from his most important critical writings. The texts are carefully annotated by the editor, James Pethica.ers and students of Yeats have long wondered which of the many avail-able editions of his poems they should use. James Pethica has solved their problems with Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose. This offers not only the familiar riches of a Norton Critical Edition (available in no other edition), but a brilliant innovation both early and late texts of certain poems--to illustrate the devel-opment of the greatest twentieth-century poet of our language."This Norton Critical Edition of Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose represents a major new addition to the series.
The texts include a comprehensive selection of William Butler Yeats's major writings spanning his entire career: 145 poems from Crossways (1889) through Last Poems (1939), including 5 poems in both early, and revised versions; the plays Cathleen ni Houihau, Ou Baile's Strand, At the Hand& Well, and Purga-tou; prose fiction and folklore writings from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, and Stories of Red Haurahan; autobiographical writings from Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) through the posthumously published Memoirs (1972); and selections from his most important critical writings. The texts are carefully annotated by the editor, James Pethica.
The volume also includes critical responses to Yeats's work by contempo-raries such as Oscar Wilde, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and T. S. Eliot, and by major recent critics such as Helen Vendler, Declan Kiberd, Harold Bloom, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Roy Foster, Richard Ellmann, and Seamus Heaney
A chronology of Yeats's Iife and work, a selected bibliographv and an index of poems and first lines are also included.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text,contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations--from contem-porary perspectives to the most current critical theory--as well as a bibliography and, in many cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.
COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of Yeats by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Courtesy of George Eastman House.
作者簡介：JAMES PETHICA has taught at Williams College and at the Uni-versity of Richmond. Currently a Fellow at the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, he is at work on the authorized biography of Lady Gregory.
