The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8): Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. BibliographyYeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8): Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
English literature -- Irish authors
The Poetical Works | of | William B. Yeats | In Two Volumes | Volume I
| Lyrical Poems | New York | The Macmillan Company | London: Macmillan
& Co., Ltd. | 1906 | All rights reserved
Cr. 8vo, pp. xiv and 340. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
_Preface._ [Dated _In the Seven Woods_, July, 1906.]
_Early Poems: I. Ballads and Lyrics._
_Early Poems: II. The Wanderings of Oisin._
_Early Poems: III. The Rose._
_The Wind Among the Reeds._
_In the Seven Woods._
_The Old Age of Queen Maeve._
_Baile and Aillinn._
1907.
The Poetical Works | of | William B. Yeats | In Two Volumes | Volume
II | Dramatical Poems | New York | The Macmillan Company | London:
Macmillan & Co., Ltd. | 1907 | All rights reserved
Cr. 8vo, pp. x and 528.
CONTENTS.
_Preface._ [Dated December, 1906.]
_The Countess Cathleen._
_The Land of Heart’s Desire._
_The Shadowy Waters._ [New version.]
_On Baile’s Strand._ [New version.]
_The King’s Threshold._ [New version.]
_Deirdre._
_Appendix I_: The Legendary and Mythological Foundation
of the Plays and Poems.
_Appendix II_: The Dates and Places of Performance of
the Plays.
_Appendix III_: _Acting Version of ‘The Shadowy
Waters.’_
_Appendix IV_: The Work of the National Theatre
Society at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin: A Statement of
Principles.
These two volumes form the first collected edition of the author’s
verse, lyric and dramatic. It is to America’s credit that this first
collected edition appeared in America.
1908.
The Unicorn from | the Stars | and Other Plays | By | William B. Yeats
| and | Lady Gregory | New York | The Macmillan Company | 1908 | All
rights reserved
Cr. 8vo, pp. xiv and 210. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
_The Unicorn from the Stars._ By Lady Gregory and W. B.
Yeats.
_Cathleen ni Hoolihan._
_The Hour-Glass: A Morality._
The Golden Helmet | By | William Butler Yeats | Published | By | John
Quinn | New York 1908
Fcp. 8vo, pp. viii and 34. Grey boards with label.
Fifty copies only printed.
NOTE.
Of the first separate edition of _The Hour-Glass_, described in Part I.
under date 1903, only twelve copies were printed. Of these, six went
for English copyright, two were lost in the post, the printer kept one,
one belongs to Mr. W. B. Yeats, one to Lady Gregory and one to Mr. John
Quinn.
The essay _Modern Irish Poetry_, which appeared as an Introduction to
_A Book of Irish Verse_, London, 1895 (see Part II.), was reissued with
additions in _Irish Literature_, Vol. III., Philadelphia, 1904.
THE END.
_Printed by_ A. H. BULLEN, _at The Shakespeare Head Press,
Stratford-on-Avon._
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FOOTNOTES:
[A] _Poems of Spenser: Selected and with an Introduction by W. B.
Yeats._ (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, N.D.)
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