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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats; Definitive edition, with the author's final revisions (original 1974; edition 1974)

by W. B. Yeats

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This collection of the lyrical, narrative and dramatic poetry published by Yeats from 1889 to 1939 incorporates his own final revisions and is indexed by titles and first lines.
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Title:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats; Definitive edition, with the author's final revisions
Authors:W. B. Yeats
Info:New York, Macmillan, 1974, Hardcover, 480 pages
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Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats (1974)

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    Praises and Dispraises by Terrence Des Pres (DromJohn)
    DromJohn: Two chapters in Praises puts Yeats work in context with Irish politics and the bardic tradition: Yeats and the Rat-Rhymers; and Yeats and Hysterica Passio.
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Nobody writes like Yeats:

A woman’s beauty is a storm-tossed banner;
Under it wisdom stands, and I alone —
Of all Arabia’s lovers I alone —
Nor dazzled by the embroidery, nor lost
In the confusion of its night-dark folds,
Can hear the armed man speak. ( )
  sircalidore | Mar 9, 2024 |
Not my favourite recent poetry reads though still very evocative in places. ( )
  brakketh | Jul 29, 2022 |
Some of these poems weren't entirely captivating to me, but since Yeats has written some of my all-time favorite poems, such as "The Stolen Child," I still find him to be a poetic genius. ( )
  bookwyrmqueen | Oct 25, 2021 |
A wonderful collection of Yeats' poetry. The blurb contains all the stuff I would have said, so why bother repeating it? ( )
  Floyd3345 | Jun 15, 2019 |
Three stars, Laurel?? I'll be the heretic with the Irish last name who docks Yeats for the weight of his pre-Easter Rebellion poetry--mostly dreary folkloric stuff. (Yes, still so much better than I can write myself:) I would rather read a slimmer volume of just the really really good stuff, which is, of course, astounding. ( )
  LaurelPoe | Dec 25, 2017 |
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Yeats, W. B.primary authorall editionsconfirmed
Albright, DanielEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Canning Wilks, MauriceCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Coster, HowardCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Finneran, Richard J.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gallery, TaylorCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
John, Augustussecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mathias, RobertCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mitchell, SusanCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Watts, CedricIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The classifying of Yeats' "Collected Poems" in its various editions is not an easy job, but mainly they can be divided into three groups.

1. Collected Poems, 1933. There were earlier collected editions called simply "Poems" (1895, 1905, 1910) but this one near the end of his life was the first intended as a career collection. However, it is not complete, as Yeats lived until 1939, publishing three more volumes of poetry; in addition "Last Poems" (which he had prepared) was published shortly after his death ("the day of his death was a cold, dark day"). Nonetheless, the incomplete 1933 Collected Poems is still with us -- the Wordsworth Poetry Series editions, usually issued as "Poetical Works" but sometimes called "Works of W.B. Yeats" or just "Collected Poems" -- but all bearing the same ISBN 1853264032, do not contain the full Collected Poems through 1939 but only the contents of the 1933 volume. These have been separated into their own entry with a clarifying if somewhat clunky title.

2. Collected Poems (1940 - ). This is the 'normal' Collected Poems, containing all the volumes of Yeats' poetry through 1939. From 1940 through the early 1980s (with very minor corrections, revisions and additions) this was the standard hardback Collected Poems of Yeats, and it continues to be standard paperback edition. These are generally called just "Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats"

3. Then in 1983 was issued the inaugural volume of "The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats" -- "Volume I: The Poems". This added to the 'normal' Collected Poems text 137 pages of previously uncollected poems, from magazines, letters, embedded in prose works, etc etc. When you buy the hardback Collected Poems of Yeats now, this is what you get (as noted above the paperback edition continues tp offer the 1940-1982 text). So, this greatly expanded edition has also been separated out and is entitled The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I, The Poems.. It can be identified by the US isbn 0684839350 (9780684839356) or the UK isbn 0333353617.

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