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Author Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939, author

Title The poems of W.B. Yeats. Volume one, 1882-1889 / edited by Peter McDonald
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021

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Series Longman annotated English poets
Longman annotated English poets
Summary In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats's poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats's poetry to date, explaining specific references, and setting poems in their contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived by the poet. This first volume collects Yeats's poetry of the 1880s, from his ambitious and extensive juvenilia (including hitherto little-noticed dramatic poems) to his earliest published pieces, leading to his first substantial book of verse. The pastoral romance of classically-inflected early work like The Island of Statues' is succeeded in these years by the Irish mythic material that finds its largest canvas in the mini-epic The Wanderings of Oisin'. In Yeats's work through the 1880s, an adolescent poet's youthful absorption in Romantic poetry is replaced by a commitment to esoteric religious speculation and Irish political nationalism. This edition allows readers to see Yeats's emergence as a poet step by step in compelling detail in relation to his literary influences - including, significantly, the Anglo-Irish poetry of the nineteenth century. The commentary provides an extensive view of Yeats's developing personal, cultural, and historical worlds as the poems gain in maturity and depth. From the first attempts at verse of a teenage boy to the fully accomplished writings of an original poet standing on the verge of popular success with poems such as The Lake Isle of Innisfree', Yeats's poetry is displayed here in unprecedented fullness and detail
Notes Peter McDonald is an Irish poet and critic, whose literary criticism includes Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (2002) and Sound Intentions: The Workings of Rhyme in Nineteenth-Century Poetry(2012). He has edited the Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, and is the author of numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry. His own Collected Poems appeared in 2012. He is Professor of British and Irish Poetryat the University of Oxford, and Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry at Christ Church, Oxford
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Subject English poetry -- 19th century.
English poetry -- 20th century.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
POETRY -- General.
English poetry
SUBJECT Ireland -- Poetry
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
Author McDonald, Peter, 1962- editor
ISBN 9781000096798
1000096793
9781003047148
1003047149
9781000096828
1000096823
9781000096859
1000096858
Other Titles 1882-1889