Most Of The Poems Collected In The Wild Swans At Coole Were Written Between 1915 And 1918, A Critical Period In Yeats's Adult Life. First Published In 1917 In A Volume Including Twenty-three Poems And A Play, The Wild Swans At Coole Was Reissued In 1919 Without The Play And With Seventeen Additional Poems. The Cornell Yeats Edition Includes Transcriptions Of Manuscript Materials For The Poems In Both Collections, Accompanied By A Generous Number Of Facsimiles. The Years During Which Yeats Composed The Wild Swans At Coole Witnessed The Painful Drama Of His Successive Proposals Of Marriage, First To Maud Gonne And Then To Her Daughter Iseult. Rejected By Both, He Abruptly Married Georgie Hyde-lees. Yeats's New Wife Developed The Practice Of Automatic Writing, Thereby Introducing Him To A Liberating World Of Mystical Communication Which He Would Further Explore In A Vision.--book Jacket. The Wild Swans At Coole -- In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory -- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death -- Men Improve With The Years -- The Collar-bone Of A Hare -- Under The Round Tower -- Solomon To Sheba -- The Living Beauty -- A Song -- To A Young Beauty -- To A Young Girl -- The Scholars -- Tom O'roughley -- The Sad Shepherd -- Lines Written In Dejection -- The Dawn -- On Woman -- The Fisherman -- The Hawk -- Memory -- Her Praise -- The People -- His Phoenix -- A Thought From Propertius -- Broken Dreams -- A Deep-sworn Vow -- Presences -- The Balloon Of The Mind -- To A Squirrel At Kyle-na-no -- On Being Asked For A War Poem -- In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen -- Upon A Dying Lady -- Ego Dominus Tuus -- A Prayer On Going Into My House -- The Phases Of The Moon -- The Cat And The Moon -- The Saint And The Hunchback -- Two Songs Of A Fool -- Another Song Of A Fool -- The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes -- App. I, Related Verse Left Unpublished By Yeats. By W.b. Yeats ; Edited By Stephen Parrish.

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939; Parrish, Stephen Maxfield

W B Yeats; Stephen Maxfield Parrish

William Butler Yeats

Comstock Publishing Associates

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The Cornell Yeats, 1. publ, Ithaca, 1994

United States, United States of America

The Cornell Yeats edition includes transcriptions of manuscript materials for the poems in both the 1917 and the 1919 edition (the latter with an additional 19 poems), accompanied by a generous number of facsimiles.

xxxix, 431 p. : 25 cm
97 07 09

2023-06-28