Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose [Norton Critical Edition]
by William Butler Yeats 
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Includes a comprehensive and annotated selection of Yeats's major writings: 145 poems from Crossways through Last Poems including five poems in both early and revised versions; the plays Cathleen ni Houlihan, On Baile's Strand, At the Hawk's Well, and Purgatory; prose fiction and folklore from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, and Stories of Red Hanrahan; autobiographical writings from Reveries over Childhood and Youth through the posthumously published Memoirs; and selections from show more critical writings. Commentators include Oscar Wilde, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Helen Vendler, Harold Bloom, Richard Ellman and Seamus Heaney. A Yeats chronology is included. No subject index. show lessTags
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I. hate. Yeats. His relentless pining for Maude and his constant mention of her in his poems is annoying! It is especially annoying that he doesn't agree with her way of building an Irish nationality, an Irish independence, and yet continues to pine for her love. It's like he's in love with the idea of her and not her. I have no idea why we are reading him in class. He has done nothing for Ireland as far as I can see. The only thing him and Joyce have done for me is turned me off to Ireland. I never want to go there!
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Adrianne
When I was studying English for undergrad, I had to purchase an excessive number of copies of literature textbooks and anthologies. This was one of them but I loved it a little more than the others because it had to do with Irish lit.
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William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 13, 1865. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief playwright until the movement was joined by John Synge. Yeats' plays included The Countess Cathleen, The Land of show more Heart's Desire, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The King's Threshold, and Deirdre. Although a convinced patriot, Yeats deplored the hatred and the bigotry of the Nationalist movement, and his poetry is full of moving protests against it. He was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." He is one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize. His poetry collections include The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer, The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, and Last Poems and Plays. He died on January 28, 1939 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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