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The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes. The Plays, edited by David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark, is the first-ever complete collection of Yeats's plays that honors the order in which the plays first appeared. It provides the latest and most accurate texts in Yeats's lifetime, as well as extensive editorial notes and emendations. Though best known as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, from the beginning of his career William Butler Yeats understood the value of his plays and his poetry to be the same. In 1923, when he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yeats suggested that "perhaps the English committees would never have sent you my name if I had written no plays...if my lyric poetry had not a quality of speech practiced on the stage." Indeed, Yeats's great achievement in poetry should not be allowed to obscure his impressive and innovative accomplishments as a dramatist. In The Plays, David and Rosalind Clark have restored the plays to the final order in which Yeats planned for them to be published. This volume opens with Yeats's introduction for an unpublished Scribner collection and encompasses all of his dramatic work, from The Countess Cathleen to The Death of Cuchulain. The Plays enables readers to see clearly, for the first time, the ways in which Yeats's very different dramatic forms evolved over the course of his life, and to appreciate fully the importance of drama in the oeuvre of this greatest of modern poets.

DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Yeats collection: Volume 1: The Wind Among the Reeds The Old Age of Queen Maeve Baile and Aillinn In the Seven Woods Ballads and Lyrics The Rose The Wanderings of Oisin Volume 2: The King's Threshold On Baile's Strand Deirdre The Shadowy Waters Volume 3: The Countess Cathleen The Land of Heart's Desire The Unicorn from the Stars Volume 4: The Hour-Glass Cathleen ni Houlihan The Golden Helmet The Irish Dramatic Movement Volume 5: The Celtic Twilight Stories of Red Hanrahan Volume 6: What's 'Popular Poetry'? Speaking to the Psaltery Magic The Happiest of the Poets The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry At Stratford-on-Avon William Blake and the Imagination William Blake and His Illustrations to the 'Divine Comedy' Symbolism in Painting The Symbolism of Poetry The Theatre The Celtic Element in Literature The Autumn of the Body The Moods The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux The Return of Ulysses Ireland and the Arts The Galway Plains Emotion of Multitude Volume 7: The Secret Rose Rosa Alchemica The Tables of the Law The Adoration of the Magi John Sherman Dhoya Volume 8: Discoveries Edmund Spencer Poetry and Tradition Modern Irish Poetry Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men Mr. Synge and His Plays Lionel Johnson The Pathway

This is a facsimile reprint of the original book by William B Yeats, rebuilt using the latest technology. There are no poor, missing or blurred pages and all photographic images have been professionally restored. At Yokai Publishing we believe that by restoring this title to print it will live on for generations to come.

This 1917 edition is the second volume in a two volume set of the poetical works of William Butler Yeats.

Vol 2 edited by Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Deirdre Toomey Vol 3 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard Includes bibliographical references and index v 1 1865-1895 -- only held v 2 1896-1900 -- v 3 1901-1904.