Early Essays

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Main Details

Title Early Essays
Authors and Contributors      By (author) W B Yeats
Edited by George Bornstein
Edited by Richard J Finneran
SeriesCollected Works of W.B. Yeats
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Anthologies
Literature - history and criticism
Literary studies - general
ISBN/Barcode 9781403904164
ClassificationsDewey:828
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date 1 December 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

"Early Essays," edited by the internationally esteemed Yeats scholars George Bornstein and Richard J. Finneran, includes the contents of the two most important collections of Yeats's critical prose, "Ideas of Good and Evil" (1903) and "The Cutting of an Agate" (1912, 1919). Among the seminal essays are considerations of Blake, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, as well as an extended discussion of the Japanese Noh theatre. The first scholarly edition of these materials, "Early Essays" offers a corrected text and detailed annotation of all allusions. Several appendices include materials from early printings which were later excluded, as well as black and white illustrations. "Early Essays" is essential reading for understanding Yeats's career and the development of modern poetry and criticism

Author Biography

Richard J. Finneran is Hodges Chair of Excellence Professor, University of Tennessee at Knoxville. George Bornstein is a Professor of English, University of Michigan. George Mills Harper is a R.O.Lawton Distinguished Professor, Florida State University