The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays

Compiling nineteen essays and introductions, a volume with explanatory notes includes Per Amica Silentia Lunae and On the Boiler as well as introductions on Shelley and Balzac and essays on Irish poetry and politics. Yeats wrote these 19 essays, together here for the first time, from 1912 onwards; he included some in the Cuala Press volume Essays 1931-1936 and selected others for various editions of his collected works. Most important among them are the elegant "Per Amica Silentia Lunae," which discusses the mask theory, death, and spiritism, and the idiosyncratic introduction to the 1936 Oxford Book of Modern Verse . Several others deal with Indian themes. The meticulous nature of the editing can be judged by the fact that appendixes, notes, and other scholarly apparatus make up more than half the book. Most academic and all large public libraries must consider this excellent edition a necessary purchase. - Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume V: Later Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series overseen by eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. The series includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, with authoritative and explanatory textual notes. The Later Essays brings together for the first time twenty-one essays and introductions that Yeats published after 1912. They include the long essay "Per Amica Silentia Lunae", in which Yeats first developed his important doctrine of the mask and which is widely admired for the luxuriant beauty of its prose. This definitive edition includes full explanatory notes and provides the first carefully researched, reliable texts of these twenty-one works. William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland’s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.