'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range[...]

A new annotated edition of Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult.
First published in 1925, and then substantially revised by the au[...]

This book focuses on the Irish Nobel laureate W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), and his interest in the Upani?ads, the ancient Sanskrit scriptures of India. Yeats undertook to assist the Indian monk Shree Purohit Sw?mi in the task of translating the "Ten Principal Upanishads" into English. Not only did Yeats[...]

This "Guide follows the often heated critical debates on who Yeats was and what kind of poetry he wrote. To what culture and what tradition did he belong? Was Yeats a revivalist, a modernist or a nationalist? Michael Faherty offers selections from the leading voices in these debates, setting them in[...]

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism, A Vision is Yeats'[...]

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very [...]

A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from every period in life, dealing with all the topics[...]

This volume contains all the major lyric poems reflecting the diverse moods and phases of this important and inspiring poet, from "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" and "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" to "Sailing to Byzantium."[...]