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

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

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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.

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Information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
1994
Print ISBN
9780026327022
eBook ISBN
9781439106181
Subtopic
Poésie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Editor’s Preface
  3. List of Abbreviations
  4. Later Essays
  5. If I Were Four-and-Twenty (1919)
  6. Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places—(w. 1914), in ‘Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland,’ by Lady Gregory (1920)
  7. Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore—(w. 1914), in ‘Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland,’ by Lady Gregory (1920)
  8. Preface to ‘Essays 1931 to 1936’ (1937)
  9. Parnell (w. 1936; publ. 1937)
  10. Modern Poetry: A Broadcast (1936)
  11. Bishop Berkeley—Introduction to ‘Bishop Berkeley,’ by Joseph M. Hone and Mario M. Rossi (1931)
  12. My Friend’s Book—(1932) Review of ‘Song and Its Fountains,’ by AE (George Russell)
  13. Prometheus Unbound (w. 1932; publ. 1933)
  14. Louis Lambert (w. 1933; publ. 1934)
  15. Introduction to ‘An Indian Monk’—‘An Indian Monk: His Life and Adventures,’ by Shri Purohit Swami (1932)
  16. Introduction to ‘The Holy Mountain’—‘The Holy Mountain: Being the Story of a Pilgrimage to Lake Mānas and of Initiation on Mount Kailās in Tibet,’ by Bhagwān Shri Hamsa, tr. Shri Purohit Swāmi (1934)
  17. Introduction to ‘Mandukya Upanishad’ (1935)
  18. Gitanjali—Introduction to ‘Gitanjali (Song Offerings),’ by Rabindranath Tagore (1912)
  19. The Ten Principal Upanishads—(w. 1936; dated 1937) Preface to ‘The Ten Principal Upanishads,’ tr. Shree Purohit Swāmi and W. B. Yeats (1937)
  20. Aphorisms of Yoga—Introduction to ‘Aphorisms of Yôga,’ by Bhagwān Shree Patanjali, tr. Shree Purohit Swāmi (1938)
  21. Introduction to ‘The Oxford Book of Modern Verse’ (1936)
  22. Introduction—(w. 1937) For the never-published Charles Scribner’s Sons ‘Dublin Edition’ of W. B. Yeats; published in ‘Essays and Introductions’ (1961) as ‘A General Introduction for my Work’
  23. Introduction to Essays—(w. 1937) For the never-published Charles Scribner’s Sons ‘Dublin Edition’ of W. B. Yeats; published in ‘Essays and Introductions’ (1961)
  24. ‘On the Boiler’ (w. 1938; publ. 1939)
  25. Appendices
  26. Notes
  27. Textual Introductions
  28. Copy-Texts used for this Edition
  29. Emendations to the Copy-Texts
  30. Index
  31. Copyright