Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume III

502 Pages·1989·3.31 MB·English

by  William Butler Yeats & William H. O�Donnell & Douglas N. Archibald & J. Fraser Cocks III & Gretchen Schwenker & Jennifer Dossin

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS
VOLUME III
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS
Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, General Editors
VOLUME I The Poems
ed. Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME II The Plays
ed. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark
VOLUME III Autobiographies
ed. William H. O’Donnell and Douglas Archibald
VOLUME IV Early Essays
ed. Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey
volume v Later Essays
ed. William H. O’Donnell
VOLUME IV Prefaces and Introductions
ed. William H. O’Donnell
VOLUME VII Letters to the New Island
ed. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer
VOLUME VIII The Irish Dramatic Movement
ed. Mary FitzGerald
VOLUME IX Early Articles and Reviews
ed. John P. Frayne
VOLUME X Later Articles and Reviews
ed. Colton Johnson
VOLUME XI The Celtic Twilight
and The Secret Rose
ed. Warwick Gould, Michael Sidnell, and Deirdre Toomey
VOLUME XII John Sherman and Dhoya
ed. Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME XIII A Vision (1925)
ed. Connie K. Hood and Walter Kelly Hood
VOLUME XIV A Vision (1937)
ed. Connie K. Hood and Walter Kelly Hood

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CONTENTS
Editors’ Preface
Textual Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Reveries over Childhood and Youth (w. 1914, publ. 1916)
The Trembling of the Veil. Book I. Four Years: 1887-1891 (w. 1920-21,
publ. 1921)
The Trembling of the Veil. Book II. Ireland after Parnell (w. 1920-22, publ.
1922)
The Trembling of the Veil. Book III. Hodos Chameliontos (w. 1920-22, publ.
1922)
The Trembling of the Veil. Book IV. The Tragic Generation (w. 1920-22,
publ. 1922)
The Trembling of the Veil. Book V. The Stirring of the Bones (w. 1920-22,
publ. 1922)
Dramatis Personae: 1896-1902 (w. 1934, publ. 1935)
Estrangement: Extracts From A Diary Kept In 1909 (w. 1909, publ. 1926)
The Death of Synge (w. 1909, 1911, 1914, publ. 1928)
The Bounty of Sweden (w. 1923-24, publ. 1924)
The Irish Dramatic Movement: A Lecture delivered to the Royal Academy
of Sweden (w. 1923, publ. 1924)
Notes
Emendations to the Copy-Text
End-of-Line Word-Division in the Copy-Text
Background Notes on Writers
Index