The Yeats Reader

RICHARD J.FINNERAN is general editor, with George Mills Harper, for The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats; series editor of The Poems in the Cornell Yeats; and editor of Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies. He holds the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; is a past President of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; and is Executive Director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.

Preface Chronology POEMS From Crossways (1889) From The Rose (1893) From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) From In the Seven Woods (1903) From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) From Responsibilities (1914) From The Wild Swans at Coole (1917) From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) From The Tower (1928) From The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) From Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems (1935) From New Poems (1938) From [Last Poems, 1938-39] PLAYS Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) On Baile's Strand (1903) Deirdre (1907) At the Hawk's Well (1917) The Words upon the Window-pane (1934) The Resurrection (1927) Purgatory (1939) The Death of Cuchulain (1939) AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916) From The Trembling of the Veil (1922) 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) From Samhain (1903) From Samhain (1908) From The Cutting of an Agate (1912) From Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918) From A Vision (1925, 1937) Essays for the Scribner Edition (1937) From On the Boiler (1939) PROSE FICTION From The Celtic Twilight (1893, 1902) The Adoration of the Magi (1897) From Stories of Red Hanrahan (1905) APPENDIX First Published Text 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