The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V

Later Essays

By: William Butler Yeats

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Hardcover | 30 September 1994

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The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume V: Later Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series overseen by eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. The series includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, with authoritative and explanatory textual notes. The Later Essays brings together for the first time twenty-one essays and introductions that Yeats published after 1912. They include the long essay "Per Amica Silentia Lunae," in which Yeats first developed his important doctrine of the mask and which is widely admired for the luxuriant beauty of its prose.
This definitive edition includes full explanatory notes and provides the first carefully researched, reliable texts of these twenty-one works.

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Editor's Preface
List of Abbreviations
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1917)	p. 1
If I were Four-and-Twenty (1919)	p. 34
Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places (w. 1914), in Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920)	p. 47
Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore (w. 1914), in Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920)	p. 74
Preface to Essays 1931 to 1936 (1937)	p. 84
Parnell (w. 1936; publ. 1937)	p. 85
Modern Poetry: A Broadcast (1936)	p. 89
Bishop Berkeley: Introduction to Bishop Berkeley (1931)	p. 103
My Friend's Book (1932): Review of Song and its Fountains, A E (George Russell)	p. 113
Prometheus Unbound (w. 1932; publ. 1933)	p. 118
Louis Lambert (w. 1933; publ. 1934)	p. 123
Introduction to An Indian Monk: An Indian Monk: His Life and Adventures (1932)	p. 130
Introduction to The Holy Mountain: The Holy Mountain: Being the Story of a Pilgrimage to Lake Manas and of Initiation on Mount Kailas in Tibet (1934)	p. 139
Introduction to 'Mandukya Upanishad' (1935)	p. 156
Gitanjali: Introduction to Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1912)	p. 165
The Ten Principal Upanishads (w. 1936; dated 1937): Preface to The Ten Principal Upanishads (1937)	p. 171
Aphorisms of Yoga: Introduction to Aphorisms of Yoga, by Bhagwan Shree Patanjali, tr. Shree Purohit Swami (1938)	p. 175
Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936)	p. 181
Introduction (w. 1937): For the never-published Charles Scribner's Sons 'Dublin Edition' of W. B. Yeats; published in Essays and Introductions (1961) as 'A General Introduction for my Work'	p. 204
Introduction to Essays (w. 1937): For the never-published Charles Scribner's Sons 'Dublin Edition' of W. B. Yeats; published in Essays and Introductions (1961)	p. 217
On the Boiler (w. 1938; publ. 1939)	p. 220
App. 1. 'Epilogue' (unadopted manuscript, c. 1917) to Per Amica Silentia Lunae	p. 253
App. 2. Alternative ending (unadopted typescript, 1919-20?) for 'If I were Four-and-Twenty'	p. 254
App. 3. Notes (w. 1914) to Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920)	p. 258
App. 4. Deleted typescript section 1, 'Introduction', of 'Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places', perhaps originally intended to introduce the entire collection Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (w. 1911-14; dated 14 October 1914)	p. 288
App. 5. Postscript to the introduction to Bishop Berkeley (1931)	p. 290
App. 6. 'A Biographical Note', in The Holy Mountain	p. 291
App. 7. Final paragraph of introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936)	p. 291
Notes	p. 293
Textual Introductions	p. 461
Copy-Texts Used for This Edition	p. 503
Emendations to the Copy-Texts	p. 507
Index	p. 519
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