The Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. & annot. by Peter McDonald (London 2020- )
Bibliographical details: The Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. & annot., Peter McDonald [Longman Series of Annotated English Poets] (London: Routledge 2020- ) [4 vols.] - of which Vol. I: 1882-1889 (2020), 724pp.; Vol II: 1890-1898 (2021), 624pp.; Vol. III: 1899-1910 (2023), 474pp. [4th vol. pending at 2025]. |
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Publishers note: In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeatss poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeatss poetry to date, explaining specific references, and setting poems in their contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived by the poet. [...]. The listings below have been compiled from records at Routledge [online], Taylor Francis [online] and COPAC/Discover [online]. 11.10.2025. |
Query: First edition published by Routledge (London) as part of the Longman Annotated English Poets series, and afterwards issued in digital form by Taylor & Francis (Oxford). [COPAC 2025.] |
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Volume One: 1882-1889 (Routledge 2020). CONTENTS: 1. [A Flower Has Blossomed…]; 2. The Old Grey Man; 3. Childs Play 4. [I Sat Upon a High Gnarled Root] 5. [A Double Moon or More Ago] 6. [Fragment of Opening Scene of an Abandoned Verse-Play] 7. The Priest of Pan 8. Inscription for a Christmas Card 9. Pan; 10. [The World is but a Strange Romance]; 11. Sunrise; 12. The Dell; 13. [Tower Wind-Beaten, Grim]; 14. [Dramatic Fragment]; 15. Vivien and Time; 16. [As Me Upon My Way the Tram-Car Whirled]; 17. [Death Hath Taen My Child to Nurse]; 18. [My Song Thou Knowest of a Dreaming Castle]; 19. [Speech From the Opening of an Abandoned Dramatic Poem]; 20. [When to Its End Oer-Ripened July Nears]; 21. Fragment (I Raise to Thee No Praying Voice...); 22. [The Children Play in White and Red]; 23. [Behold the Man]; 24. [A Soul of the Fountain Spake Me a Word]; 25. [A Sound Came Floating, an Unearthly Sound]; 26. Love and Death; 27. Unused scene from Love and Death; 28. Song of the Faeries; 29. [Mong Meadows of Sweet Grain]; 30. Sansloy – Sansfoy – Sansjoy; 31. [Love and Sorrow]; 32. Mosada; 33. [For Clapping Hands of All Mens Love]; 34. The Magpie; 35. The Island of Statues: An Arcadian Faery Tale – in Two Acts; 36. The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes; 37. [Truth Is Bold, But Falsehood Fears ]; 38. Fragment (And Helens Eyes); 39. Loves Decay 40. The Field Mouse41. Time and the Witch Vivien 42. [Hushed in the Vale of Dajestan] 43. An Old and Solitary One 44. A Song of Sunset 45. Love and Death 46. [The Dew Comes Dropping] 47. From The Village of the Elms 48. The Seeker: A Dramatic Poem – In Two Scenes 49. The Song of the Happy Shepherd 50. In a Drawing-Room 51. Life 52. The Sad Shepherd 53. The Two Titans: A Political Poem 54. [There Sings a Rose by the Rim] 55. The Priest and the Fairy 56. Kanva on Himself 57. On Mr. Nettleships Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy 58. The Meditation of the Old Fisherman 59. The Falling of the Leaves 60. The Stolen Child 61. To – (Remembrance) 62. The Indian Upon God 63. An Indian Song 64. Song of Spanish Insurgents 65. Quatrains and Aphorisms 66. The Fairy Pedant 67. A Dawn-Song 68. Anashuya and Vijaya 69. King Goll: An Irish Legend 70. [How Beautiful Thy Colours Are…] 71. The Ballad of Moll Magee 72. How Ferencz Renya Kept Silent: Hungary, 1848 73. Love Song: From the Gaelic 74. She Who Dwelt Among the Sycamores: A Fancy 75. The Protestants Leap 76. Ephemera 77. The Fairy Doctor 78. Girls Song 79. [Wherever in the Wastes of Wrinkling Sand] 80. A Lovers Quarrel Among the Fairies 81. The Wanderings of Oisin and How a Demon Trapped Him 82. King Goll (Third Century) 83. A Legend 84. Down by the Salley Gardens 85. The Ballad of Father O Hart 86. The Phantom Ship 87. Street Dancers 88. To an Isle in the Water 89. The Lake Isle of Innisfree 90. In the Firelight 91. The Outlaws Bridal: Ireland, 16** 92. In Church 93. A Summer Evening 94. The Ballad of the Foxhunter 95. Who Goes with Fergus? Appendix 1: Contents of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) Appendix 2: Initial prose draft of The Island of Statues |
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Volume Two: 1890-1898 (London; Routledge; 25 Sept. 2021). CONTENTS: Chronology of W.B. Yeatss Life and Publications, 1890-1898 Abbreviations THE POEMS 96. A Cradle Song 97. The Ballad of Father Gilligan 98. Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists 99. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner 100. The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland; 101. The Pathway; 102. The White Birds; 103. To a Sister of the Cross and the Rose; 104. A Faery Song; 105. A Salutation; 106. The Rose of Battle; 107. A Dream of a Blessed Spirit; 108. Mourn – And then Onward!; 109. When You are Old; 110. [He Who Bids the White Plains of the Pole]; 111. A Dream of Other Lives; 112. The Sorrow of Love; 113. A Song of the Rosy-Cross; 114. The Rose of the World; 115. A Dream of Death; 116. The Death of Cuchulain; 117. The Pity of Love; 118. The Two Trees; 119. To the Rose upon the Rood of Time; 120. To Ireland in the Coming Times; 121. The Rose of Peace; 122. Where My Books Go; 123. Fergus and the Druid; 124. When You are Sad; 125. A Mystical Prayer to the Masters of the Elements, Finvarra, Feacra, and Caolte; 126. The Watch-Fire; 127. The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart; 128. The Fiddler of Dooney; 129. [I Never Have Seen Maid Quiet]; 130. Into the Twilight; 131. The Danaan Quicken Tree; 132. The Ballad of Earl Paul; 133. The Cap and Bells; 134. The Moods; 135. The Host; 136. [He Treads a Road of Glint and Gleam]; 137. Wisdom and Dreams; 138. On a Childs Death; 139. The Glove and the Cloak; 140. The Host of the Air; 141. [Veering, Fleeting, Fickle, the Winds of Knocknarea]; 142. The Song of the Old Mother; 143. [White Daughter of the Iron Time...]; 144. [I Will Not in Grey Hours Revoke]; 145. The Heart of the Woman; 146. [The Poet, Owen Hanrahan…]; 147. The Lover to his Heart; 148. [Out of Sight is Out of Mind]; 149. The Indian to His Love; 150. The Wanderings of Oisin; 151. The Madness of King Goll; 152. To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire; 153. He Gives his Beloved Certain Rhymes; 154. [The Loud Years Come, the Loud Years Go]; 155. A Poet to his Beloved; 156. The Everlasting Voices; 157. The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods; 158. He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace; 159. He Tells of the Perfect Beauty; 160. The Lover Speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in the Coming Days; 161. The Travail of Passion; 162. The Valley of the Black Pig; 163. The Unappeasable Host; 164. He Remembers Forgotten Beauty; 165. The Secret Rose; 166. He Reproves the Curlew; 167. To His Heart, Bidding it Have No Fear; 168. He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers; 169. [O Tufted Reeds, Bend Low…]; 170. The Shadowy Waters [1896 TS version]; 171. The Blessed; 172. He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved, and Longs for the End of the World; 173. The Lover Pleads With His Friend for Old Friends; 174. The Song of Wandering Aengus; 175. Hanrahan Laments Because of His Wanderings; 176. The Hosting of the Sidhe; 177. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven; 178. He Wishes his Beloved Were Dead; 179. He Hears the Cry of the Sedge; 180. The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love; 181. He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of his Beloved; 182. The Fish; 183. He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven; 184. The Poet Pleads With the Elemental Powers Appendix 1: Contents of W.B. Yeatss volumes of poetry, 1892-1899. Appendix 2: Draft Subject for Lyric (late 1890s). |
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Volume Three: 1899-1910 (Oxford 2023). CONTENTS: A Note from the General Editors; Acknowledgements; Chronology of W.B. Yeatss Life and Publications, 1899-1910; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Poems: [Nos.] 185 The Song of Heffernan the Blind: A Translation; 186. The Shadowy Waters (1900); 187 The Withering of the Boughs; 188. Under the Moon; 189. [I walked among the seven woods of Coole]; 190. Baile and Aillinn; 191. Yellow Haired Donough; 192. [Do not make a great keening]; 193. The Blood Bond; 194. Spinning Song; 195. The Folly of Being Comforted; 196. The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves; 197. The Arrow; 198. Red Hanrahans Song about Ireland; 199. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water; 200 In the Seven Woods; 201. The Old Age of Queen Maeve; 202 Adams Curse; 203. The Happy Townland; 204 O Do Not Love Too Long; 205. [I heard under a ragged hollow wood]; 206. Old Memory; 207. Never give all the heart; 208. Songs from Deirdre: I; 209. The Ragged Wood; 210. The Harp of Aengus; 211. The Shadowy Waters; 212. [Come ride and ride to the garden]; 213. Against Witchcraft; 214. Songs from Deirdre: III; 215. Songs from Deirdre: II; 216. [The friends that have it I do wrong]; 217. Maid Quiet; 218. [O Deaths old bony finger]; 219. An Appointment; 220 [Accursed who brings to light of day]; 221 His Dream; 222. All things can tempt me; 223 At Galway races; 224 Reconciliation; 225. No Second Troy; 226. Words; 227. [My dear is angry that of late]; 228. [On a certain middle-aged office holder]; 229 A Friends illness; 230 On George Moore; 231. The Coming of Wisdom with Time; 232. To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine; 233. Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation; 234. The Fascination of Whats Difficult; 235. [Irishmen, if they prefer]; 236. King and No King; 237. A drinking song; 238. On those that hated The Playboy of the Western World, 1907; 239. A Woman Homer Sung; 240. Peace; 241. Against Unworthy Praise; 242. These are the Clouds; 243. The Mask; 244. [But every powerful life goes on its way...]; 245. Brown Penny; Appendix 1: Contents of W.B. Yeatss Volumes of Poetry, 1899-1910; Appendix 2: Prefatory Material by W.B. Yeats in Collections of Poetry, 1899-1910; Index of Poems; Index of First Lines. |
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