Early Essays

537 Pages·2007·4.52 MB·English

by  William Butler Yeats

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats
George Mills Harper and George Bornstein,
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 N. Archibald
VOLUME IV EARLY ESSAYS
ed. George Bornstein and Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME V LATER ESSAYS
ed. William H. O’Donnell
VOLUME VI 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 and Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME IX EARLY ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
ed. John P. Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre
VOLUME X LATER ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
ed. Colton Johnson
VOLUME XI MYTHOLOGIES
ed. Jonathan Allison
VOLUME XII JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA
ed. Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME XIII A VISION (1925) ed. Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine Paul
VOLUME XIV A VISION (1937) ed. Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine Paul
Francesca and Paolo. After the rare engraving by William Blake (Inferno V)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yeats, W. B. (William
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Early essays / W. B. Yeats ;
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I. Bornstein, George. II. Finneran, Richard J. III. Title.
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