New Releases by William Butler Yeats

First published in 1891, John Sherman and Dhoya was Yeats''s third separate publication. The stories were revised and reprinted in the 1908 Collected Works in Verse and Prose but not published again in Yeats''s lifetime. John Sherman, Yeats''s only completed attempt at realistic fiction, details the title character''s dilemma: He must choose between life in London and marriage to Margaret Leland, an English girl, and life in Ireland and marriage to a childhood sweetheart, Mary Carton. In addition to containing numerous autobiographical elements (for instance, the town of Ballah is modeled on Yeats''s Sligo), the novelette treats many of Yeats''s persistent themes, such as the debate between nationality and cosmopolitanism and the conflict between what he would later call the Self and the Anti-Self. In the end, Sherman reaffirms his Irish roots, and Margaret Leland''s affections are transferred to Sherman''s friend, the Reverend William Howard. Dhoya, a mythological tale set in the remote past, depicts a liasion between a mortal and a fairy, a motif that Yeats used in many other works. Describing the inevitable conflict between a world of perfection and the mortal world, the short story suggests that "only the changing, and moody, and angry, and weary can love." Well received by most contemporary reviewers, John Sherman and Dhoya are important both as works of fiction and as indications of the fundamental continuity of subject and theme in Yeats''s career. This edition offers an accurate text, an introduction, and explanatory notes.

Autobiographies is made up of six autobiographical works that Yeats published in the mid 1930s. Together, they provide a fascinating insight into the first 58 years of his life. The work provides memories of his early childhood, through to his experience of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. The volume contains explanatory notes and previously unpublished passages from candidly explicit first drafts.

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats''s poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give theessence of his work and thinking.W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and thesymbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occultwritings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of his letters.This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats''s literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.

Poetry.

This volume assembles all the known surviving drafts of Yeats''s final sequence of poems, arranged to provide a history of each poem''s composition. Previously overlooked or missequenced final drafts presented here will oblige textual revision of several canonical poems. Invaluable as an archive of Yeats''s revisions, this volume resolves many of the textual cruxes posed by Last Poems ever since its publication, while highlighting ambiguities that remain.

Compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many others.

Yeats''s short fiction, rich in metaphor and symbolism, is preoccupied, like his poetry, with ''the war of spiritual with natural order''. Themes and figures recur, notably Hanrahan the Red, the last of Ireland''s Celtic singers, and several of Yeats''s restless heroes are seekers after forbidden knowledge, alchemists, lovers or mystics. This volume contains Yeats''s best short fiction. It includes his short novel, John Sherman, all the stories in The Secret Rose, and the ''companion'' stories ''The Tables of the Law'' and ''The Adoration of the Magi''.

From reviews of The Cornell Yeats series: "For students of Yeats the whole series is bound to become an essential reference source and a stimulus to important critical re-readings of Yeats''s major works. In a wider context, the series will also provide an extraordinary and perhaps unique insight into the creative process of a great artists."-Irish Literary Supplement "I consider the Cornell Yeats one of the most important scholarly projects of our time."-A. Walton Litz, Princeton University, coeditor of The Collected Poems of William Carols Williams and Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound "The most ambitious of the many important projects in current studies of Yeats and perhaps of modern poetry generally. . . . The list of both general and series editors, as well as prospective preparers of individual volumes, reads like a Who''s Who of Yeats textual studies in North America. Further, the project carries the blessing of Yeats''s heirs and bespeaks an ongoing commitment from a major university press. . . . The series will inevitably engender critical studies based on a more solid footing than those of any other modern poet. . . . Its volumes will be consulted long after gyres of currently fashionable theory have run on."-Yeats Annual (1983) This is the second of two volumes containing transcriptions and in many cases facsimiles of all surviving manuscripts of the poetry that Yeats had published by 1895, together with the later revisions of that poetry.

A collection of forty-one early love poems by William Butler Yeates.

Crossways - The rose - The wind among the the reeds - In the seven woods - The green helmet and other poems - Responsibilities - The wild swans at Coole - Michael Robartes and the dancer - The tower - The winding stair and other poems - Words for music perhaps - A woman young and old - A full moon in March - Last poems.

Supernatural tales are based upon Irish folklore, incidents related to Yeats by witnesses, and Yeats'' own experiences.

Essays originally published between 1889-92 in the newspapers The Providence Sunday Journal and The Boston Pilot.

The reason for Yeats''s fascination with dance became obvious to me when I understood his concept of theatre which was very different from the theatre of his day. He shunned naturalistic theatre - plays based on contemporary ideas and events prevalent in the work of George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. Yeats wanted his drama to by-pass the intellect, to excite the imagination rather than the mind. He believed that the world of events and ideas was transitory, passing, whereas the reality of the imagination was lasting. He wanted his theatre to communicate experiences which were outside the scope of reason, experiences which evoked the "intimacies, ecstasies and anguish of the soul-life." He wanted his theatre to create magic, to be a mystical happening which lured the audience to "the edge of trance." He wanted to create poems without words. Dance was the perfect solution. Through dance he could convey those "intuitive perceptions" that could be comprehended only through the pulses, "in that moment where everything is intelligible in one throb of the artery."