Yeats The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose-all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings. and letters- to give the essence of his work and thinking W. B. Yeats's career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and the symbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among otherssThe importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occult writings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of letters. This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.

THIS EDITION INCLUDES
Introduction . Textual note . Bibliography
Chronology . Explanatory notes . Index
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edward Larrissy