The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

by R Finneran (Editor)

The Yeats Reader is the first single volume to encompass the full range of William Butler Yeats's talents. It presents over a hundred and fifty of Yeats's best-known poems, plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for the unpublished Scribner Edition of his collected works. The Yeats Reader also includes detailed notes and a chronology of the life.

588 pages, Paperback

Published August 29, 2002

Reviews

[Whitney Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have LOVED relishing the poetry of Yeats. It has taken me a long time to read this collection, but I am learning to relish and savor rather than rush to read something else instead. I mean WHY? This is the kind of stuff I consider gorgeous. Just gorgeous!