The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II

✍ Scribed by Yeats, William Butler; Yeats, W B

• Book ID: 109341813
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster,Scribner
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780684857237

✦ Synopsis

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...