Book Description
No other series of classic texts achieves the editorial standard of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with contextual and critical materials that bring the work to life for students. Careful editing, first-rate translation, thorough explanatory annotations, chronologies, and selected bibliographies make each text accessible to students while encouraging in-depth study. Each volume in the series is printed on acid-free paper, and every text remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice of excellence for scholarship for students at more than 2,500 colleges and universities worldwide.
Yeats' Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition FROM THE PUBLISHER
No other series of classic texts achieves the editorial standard of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with contextual and critical materials that bring the work to life for students. Careful editing, first-rate translation, thorough explanatory annotations, chronologies, and selected bibliographies make each text accessible to students while encouraging in-depth study. Each volume in the series is printed on acid-free paper, and every text remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice of excellence for scholarship for students at more than 2,500 colleges and universities worldwide.
SYNOPSIS
Includes a comprehensive and annotated selection of Yeats's major writings: 145 poems from through including five poems in both early and revised versions; the plays , and ; prose fiction and folklore from , and ; autobiographical writings from through the posthumously published ; and selections from 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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR