Editing Yeats}}}s Poems A Reconsideration [Hardcover]

This study is a companion to the revised edition of W.B.Yeats, The Poems: A New Edition. Professor Finneran outlines the complex problems facing an editor of Yeats's poetry and explains the solutions adopted in the new text. Manuscript materials are drawn on extensively, including some which have recently come to light in the Scribner Archives at the University of Texas and at Princeton University. Compared with the first edition of this volume (Editing Yeats's Poems, 1983), there is an additional chapter - on the order of the poems - as well as new information on the Scribner Edition and other revisions throughout.Preface - Prolegomena: The Myth of The Definitive Edition - The Edition de Luxe and the Scribner Edition - The Winding Stair and Other Poems and The Collected Poems - Collaborative Revision: Thomas Mark and George Yeats, 1939-49 - A Full Moon in March and New Poems - Last Poems - Additional Poems - The Order of the Poems - Conclusion: Towards the Next Edition - Appendix A: Poems by 'Y' in Hibernia, 1882-83 - Appendix B: Some Sources for the Poems in Yeats's Plays - Index