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and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants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 third volume, Yeats's poetry of the first
decade of the twentieth century is brought into sharp focus,
revealing the extent of his efforts to re-fashion a style that had
already made him a well-known poet. All of the major modes in
Yeats's earlier work are subject to radical re-imagining in these
years, from poetic narrative founded in Irish myth, in poems such
as 'Baile and Aillinn' and 'The Old Age of Queen Maeve', to the
symbolist drama-poetry of The Shadowy Waters, here edited in its
two (completely different) versions of 1900 and 1906. In a decade
when the theatre was one of Yeats's principal concerns, his lyric
poems, which were becoming increasingly explicit in personal terms,
began to discover new intensities of conversational pitch and
mythic resonance. Poems such as 'The Folly of Being Comforted',
'Adam's Curse', 'No Second Troy', and 'The Fascination of What's
Difficult' are given close attention in this new edition, alongside
topical and epigrammatic pieces that are often passed over in
accounts of Yeats's development. The evolving complexities of
Yeats's personal and political lives are crucial to his artistic
development in these years, and the commentary gives these generous
attention, showing how the poetry both feeds upon and often
transcends the circumstances of its composition. The volume offers
strong evidence for this decade as a crucial one in Yeats's poetic
life, in which the poet created wholly new registers for his verse
as well as new dimensions for his imaginative vision.
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