Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume II: 1896-1900 (Yeats Collected Letters Series)

Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume II: 1896-1900 (Yeats Collected Letters Series)

Seamus Heaney has described The Collected Letters as "one of the great publishing events of the decade." This volume covers a formative period (1896-1900) in Yeats's political career, and the beginning of his theatrical involvement. Letter by letter, Yeats's private concerns, artistic quarrels, and exhausting political life are revealed. Rich and readable notes provide a narrative for these years, explaining allusions, and setting the correspondence in its cultural and political contexts. Praise for Volume I: "The book is a good read ... with a splendidly helpful chronology."--Eavan Boland, The Observer "Wonderfully complete edition....It should delight all Yeats admirers'-- Financial Times "This is one of the great works of literary scholarship of our time.'-- London Review of Books Warwick Gould is Reader in English Literature at the University of London. John Kelly is a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and General Editor of the Yeats Letters series. Deirdre Toomey is Research Editor of the Yeats Annual .