W. B. Yeats's "The Winding Stair and Other Poems "was published in
1933 when Yeats was sixty-eight, ten years after he won the Nobel
Prize and six years before his death in 1939. Yeats famously
invoked in "Adam's Curse" the time he spent "stitching and
unstitching" the lines of his work, but he also spent considerable
time stitching and unstitching his poems to each other. "The
Winding Stair "demonstrates that care, combining and reordering the
poems of two earlier publications in an edition intended as the
companion volume to "The Tower," published in 1928.
This Scribner facsimile edition reproduces exactly the pages of the
elegantly planned and designed first edition of "The Winding Stair
and Other Poems "as it first appeared, including a photo of the
cover design on which Yeats collaborated. It adds an introduction
and notes by celebrated Yeats scholar George Bornstein.
Yeats's longest separate volume of verse, it features sixty-four
poems written in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Among them are
such masterpieces as "Blood and the Moon," "Byzantium," the Coole
Park poems, "Vacillation," and two separately titled long sequences
ending with the exquisite lyric "From the 'Antigone.'" These poems
amply justify T. S. Eliot's contention that Yeats was one of the
few poets "whose history is the history of their own time, who are
a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood
without them."
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