Mythologies by W.B.Yeats [Hardcover]

Mythologies is the definitive edition of W.B. Yeats's folklore and early prose fiction, edited according to Yeats's final textual instructions. Its extensive annotation makes luminous Yeats's 'fibrous darkness', that 'matrix out of which everything has come', by comprehensively dealing with oral and written sources, abandoned and unpublished writings. The documentation is especially designed to acknowledge Yeats's strategies of self-allusion and the special role folkloric prose plays in relation to his poetry, drama, autobiographical writings, speculative prose, essays and letters. Featuring a number of new images, this is the first time that a work of Yeats's has been edited according to 'Book History' principles, and will be fascinating reading for all students and scholars of Yeats. Winner of the 2006 Wheatley Medal prize for an outstanding index.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Prefatory Note Editors' Introduction Editorial Principles and A Note on the Text Yeats's 'Note' to Mythologies (1959) The Celtic Twilight (1893) The Secret Rose (1897) Stories of Red Hanrahan (1897) Rosa Alchemica, The Tables of the Law , and The Adoration of the Magi (1897) Explanatory and Textual Notes Appendix 1: Abandoned Text from Earlier Editions of The Celtic Twilight Appendix 2: Yeats's Newspaper Cuttings Assemblage towards The Celtic Twilight (1893) Appendix 3: Emendations to the Copy-Text Appendix 4: Line-End Word Division in the Copy-Text Appendix 5: Variants from the Copy-Text found in the 1931-2 Page-proofs of Mythologies and The Irish Dramatic Movement Appendix 6: Rearrangements IndexWARWICK GOULD is Professor of English Literature in the University of London, where he is Director of the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study. He has been Editor of Yeats Annual since 1983, and is co-editor of the Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, II, 1896-1900 (1997) and co-author of Joachim of Fiorl#$