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

Title The Yeats reader : a portable compendium of poetry, drama, and prose / edited by Richard J. Finneran
Edition Revised edition
Published New York : Scribner Poetry, [2002]
©2002

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Description xxii, 566 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents Preface -- Chronology -- Poems -- From Crossways (1889) The Song of the Happy Shepherd -- The Sad Shepherd -- The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes -- The Indian to his Love -- The Falling of the Leaves -- Ephemera -- The Stolen Child -- To an Isle in the Water -- Down by the Salley Gardens -- The Meditation of the Old Fisherman -- From The Rose (1893) -- To the Rose upon the Rood of Time Fergus and the Druid -- The Rose of the World -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree -- The Pity of Love -- The Sorrow of Love -- When You are Old -- The White Birds -- Who goes with Fergus? -- The Man who dreamed of Faeryland -- The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists -- The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner -- The Two Trees -- To Ireland in the Coming Times -- From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) -- The Hosting of the Sidhe The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart -- The Fish -- The Song of Wandering Aengus -- The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love -- He reproves the Curlew -- He remembers forgotten Beauty -- A Poet to his Beloved -- He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes -- To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear -- The Cap and Bells -- He hears the Cry of the Sedge -- He thinks of Those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved -- The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends -- He wishes his Beloved were Dead -- He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven -- From In the Seven Woods (1903) -- In the Seven Woods The Arrow -- The Folly of being Comforted -- Never give all the Heart -- Adam's Curse -- Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland -- The Old Men admiring Themselves in the Water -- O do not Love Too Long -- From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) -- His Dream A Woman Homer sung -- Words -- No Second Troy -- Reconciliation -- The Fascination of What's Difficult -- A Drinking Song -- The Coming of Wisdom with Time -- On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature -- To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine -- The Mask -- Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation -- All things can tempt me -- Brown Penny -- From Responsibilities (1914) -- [Introductory Rhymes] To a Wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures -- September -- To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing -- Paudeen -- When Helen lived -- On Those that hated 'The Playboy of the Western World,' -- The Three Beggars -- Beggar to Beggar cried -- The Witch -- The Peacock -- To a Child dancing in the Wind -- Two Years Later -- A Memory of Youth -- Fallen Majesty -- Friends -- The Cold Heaven -- That the Night come -- The Magi -- The Dolls -- A Coat -- [Closing Rhyme] -- From The Wild Swans at Coole (1917) -- The Wild Swans at Coole In Memory of Major Robert Gregory -- An Irish Airman foresees his Death -- Men improve with the Years -- The Living Beauty -- A Song -- The Scholars -- Lines written in Dejection -- On Woman -- The Fisherman -- Memory -- The People -- Broken Dreams -- A Deep-sworn Vow -- The Balloon of the Mind -- On being asked for a War Poem -- Ego Dominus Tuus -- The Double Vision of Michael Robartes -- From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) -- Michael Robartes and the Dancer Easter, 1916 -- Sixteen Dead Men -- The Rose Tree -- On a Political Prisoner -- The Second Coming -- A Prayer for my Daughter -- To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee -- From The Tower (1928) -- Sailing to Byzantium -- The Tower -- Meditations in Time of Civil War -- Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen -- A Prayer for my Son -- Fragments -- Leda and the Swan -- Among School Children -- From 'Oedipus at Colonus' -- All Souls' Night -- From The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) -- In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz A Dialogue of Self and Soul -- Coole Park, -- Coole and Ballylee, -- The Choice -- Mohini Chatterjee -- Byzantium -- Vacillation -- Crazy Jane and the Bishop -- Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop -- Her Anxiety -- Lullaby -- After Long Silence -- Father and Child -- Parting -- Her Vision in the Wood -- A Last Confession -- From the 'Antigone' -- From Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems (1935) -- Parnell's Funeral A Prayer for Old Age -- Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn -- The Four Ages of Man -- Meru -- From New Poems (1938) -- The Gyres Lapis Lazuli -- Imitated from the Japanese -- An Acre of Grass -- What Then? -- Beautiful Lofty Things -- Come Gather Round Me Parnellites -- The Great Day -- Parnell -- The Spur -- The Municipal Gallery Re-visited -- Are You Content -- From [ Last Poems, 1938-39] -- Under Ben Bulben The Black Tower -- Cuchulain Comforted -- The Statues -- Long-legged Fly -- High Talk -- Man and the Echo -- The Circus Animals' Desertion -- Politics -- Plays [Dates and order follow The Plays (2001)] -- Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) -- On Baile's Strand (1904) -- Deirdre (1907) -- At the Hawk's Well (1917) -- The Words upon the Window-pane (1930) -- The Resurrection (1931) -- Purgatory (1938) -- The Death of Cuchulain (1939) -- Autobiographical Writings From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916) -- From The Trembling of the Veil (1922) -- From Book I: Four Years, 1887-1891 From Book II: Ireland After Parnell -- From Book III: Hodos Chameliontos -- From Book IV: The Tragic Generation -- From Book V: The Stirring of the Bones -- From Dramatis Personae (1935) -- From The Bounty of Sweden (1925) -- From Memoirs (Written 1916-17, Published 1972) -- From Journal (Written 1909-30, Published 1972) -- From Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944) -- Critical Writings From Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) -- What is 'Popular Poetry'? From Magic -- William Blake and the Imagination -- The Symbolism of Poetry -- Ireland and the Arts -- From Samhain (1903) -- The Reform of the Theatre From Samhain (1908) -- First Principles -- From The Cutting of an Agate (1912) -- The Tragic Theatre From Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918) -- From Anima Hominis From Anima Mundi -- From A Vision (1925, 1937) -- From Introduction From Book I: The Great Wheel -- From Part I: The Principal Symbol From Part II: Examination of the Wheel -- From Part III: The Twenty-eight Incarnations -- From Book V: Dove or Swan -- Essays for the Scribner Edition (1937) -- Introduction Introduction to Essays -- Introduction to Plays -- From On the Boiler (1939) -- From Preliminaries -- Prose Fiction From The Celtic Twilight (1893, 1902) -- 'Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye' Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni -- The Adoration of the Magi (1897) -- From Stories of Red Hanrahan (1905) -- Red Hanrahan The Death of Hanrahan -- Appendix First Published Texts of Six Poems -- Notes A Note on the Notes -- A Note on the Text -- Notes to the Poems -- Notes to the Plays -- Notes to Autobiographical Writings -- Notes to Critical Writings -- Notes to Prose Fiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
SUBJECT Ireland -- Literary collections. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115511
Genre/Form Literature.
Author Finneran, Richard J.
LC no. 2002070670
ISBN 0743233158
0743227980 paperback
Other Titles Works. Selections. 2002