In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats’s poetry to date, explaining specific references, and setting poems in their contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived by the poet.
In this second volume, the poems of Yeats’s early maturity emerge in the contexts of his engagement with Irish history and myth, along with nationalist politics; his increasing involvement with ritual magic and esoteric lore; and his turbulent, often unhappy, personal life. The poems of The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) reveal a poet of intense narrative power and metaphorical resource, adept at transforming miscellaneous sources into haunting and original poems. A major revision of his earlier narrative, ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’, takes place in this decade when Yeats is also taken up with the composition of elaborate and uncanny symbolic lyrics, many of them resulting from his love for Maud Gonne, that are finally collected in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899). This edition makes it possible to trace in detail Yeats’s debts to folklore and magic, alongside his involved and often difficult private and public life, in poetry of exceptional complexity and power.
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary.
Chronology of W.B. Yeatss Life and Publications, 1890-1898
Abbreviations THE POEMS
96. A Cradle Song
97. The Ballad of Father Gilligan
98. Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
99. The
Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
100. The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland
101.
The Pathway
102. The White Birds
103. To a Sister of the Cross and the Rose
104. A Faery Song
105. A Salutation
106. The Rose of Battle
107. A Dream of a
Blessed Spirit
108. Mourn And then Onward!
109. When You are Old
110. [ He
Who Bids the White Plains of the Pole]
111. A Dream of Other Lives
112. The
Sorrow of Love
113. A Song of the Rosy-Cross
114. The Rose of the World
115.
A Dream of Death
116. The Death of Cuchulain
117. The Pity of Love
118. The
Two Trees
119. To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
120. To Ireland in the
Coming Times
121. The Rose of Peace
122. Where My Books Go
123. Fergus and
the Druid
124. When You are Sad
125. A Mystical Prayer to the Masters of the
Elements, Finvarra, Feacra, and Caolte
126. The Watch-Fire
127. The Lover
tells of the Rose in his Heart
128. The Fiddler of Dooney
129. [ I Never Have
Seen Maid Quiet]
130. Into the Twilight
131. The Danaan Quicken Tree
132.
The Ballad of Earl Paul
133. The Cap and Bells
134. The Moods
135. The Host
136. [ He Treads a Road of Glint and Gleam]
137. Wisdom and Dreams
138. On a
Childs Death
139. The Glove and the Cloak
140. The Host of the Air
141.
[ Veering, Fleeting, Fickle, the Winds of Knocknarea]
142. The Song of the
Old Mother
143. [ White Daughter of the Iron Time...]
144. [ I Will Not in
Grey Hours Revoke]
145. The Heart of the Woman
146. [ The Poet, Owen
Hanrahan]
147. The Lover to his Heart
148. [ Out of Sight is Out of Mind]
149. The Indian to His Love
150. The Wanderings of Oisin
151. The Madness of
King Goll
152. To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire
153. He Gives his
Beloved Certain Rhymes
154. [ The Loud Years Come, the Loud Years Go]
155. A
Poet to his Beloved
156. The Everlasting Voices
157. The Lover Asks
Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods
158. He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
159. He Tells of the Perfect Beauty
160. The Lover Speaks to the Hearers of
his Songs in the Coming Days
161. The Travail of Passion
162. The Valley of
the Black Pig
163. The Unappeasable Host
164. He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
165. The Secret Rose
166. He Reproves the Curlew
167. To His Heart, Bidding
it Have No Fear
168. He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
169. [ O Tufted
Reeds, Bend Low]
170. The Shadowy Waters [ 1896 TS version]
171. The Blessed
172. He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved, and
Longs for the End of the World
173. The Lover Pleads With His Friend for Old
Friends
174. The Song of Wandering Aengus
175. Hanrahan Laments Because of
His Wanderings
176. The Hosting of the Sidhe
177. He Wishes for the Cloths of
Heaven
178. He Wishes his Beloved Were Dead
179. He Hears the Cry of the
Sedge
180. The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love
181. He Thinks of Those Who
Have Spoken Evil of his Beloved
182. The Fish
183. He Thinks of His Past
Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven
184. The Poet Pleads
With the Elemental Powers Appendix 1: Contents of W.B. Yeatss volumes of
poetry, 1892-1899. Appendix 2: Draft Subject for Lyric (late 1890s).
Peter McDonald is an Irish poet and critic, whose literary criticism includes Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (2002) and Sound Intentions: The Workings of Rhyme in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (2012). He has edited the Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, and is the author of numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry.His own Collected Poems appeared in 2012. He is Professor of British and Irish Poetry at the University of Oxford, and Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry at Christ Church, Oxford.
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