William Butler Yeats: References Arthur Quiller Couch, ed., Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 (new ed. 1929), lists Yeats, pp.901-905. Seamus Deane, gen. ed., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day Co. 1991), Vol. 2, contains a full section on Yeats, edited by Seamus Heaney with an introductory essay. BIOG describes A Vision as an esoteric thesaurus. For BIOG, WORKS & CRIT, see above. Also, FDA3 contains numerous REFS. & REMS., with selections from The Trembling of the Veil [421-24] and The Tragic Generation, from Autobiographies (1926) [424-26]. [ top ] Times Literary Supplement (1987), incidental notices: Yeats the Initiate: Essays on Certain Themes in the Work of W. B. Yeats (Dolmen; London: Allen and Unwin [1987]), 449pp.; Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Yeats and the Visual Arts (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers UP [1987]), 238pp.; George Bornstein, ed., W. B. Yeats: The Early Poetry, Vol. I: Mosada; and The Island of Statues (Cornell UP [1986]), 442pp.; Richard Finneran, ed., Critical Essays on W. B. Yeats (Boston: G. K. Hall [1986]); Finneran, ed., Yeats: An annual of critical and textual studies, Vol. IV (1986), 231pp.; also cited, Ian Fletcher, W. B. Yeats and His Contemporaries (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf [1987]), 350pp.; Heather C. Martin, W. B. Yeats: Metaphysician as Dramatist (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe [1987]), 153pp.; George Mills Harper, Yeatss Golden Dawn: The Influence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on the Life and Art of W. B. Yeats [rep. of 1974 first edn.] (Wellingborough: Aquarius Press [1987]), pb., 322pp.; also Katharine B. Worth, ed., Yeats, Where There is Nothing [1903; unreprinted in his lifetime], and The Unicorn From the Stars [collab. Lady Gregory] (Washington: Cath. UP; Gerrards Cros: Colin Smythe [1987]), 166pp. [ top ] Sundry items: Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (NY: Walter Scott [n.d.]), ill. James Torrance; A Full Moon in March (Macmillan 1935); John Sherman and Dhoya (Dublin: Lilliput 1990); Carlo di Petris, Yeats Oggi: studi e ricerche (Rome Univ. 1993). Hyland Books (Cat. 214), lists Beltaine, No 1, May 1899 [Wade 226]; Beltaine, Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre 1899-1900, 3 nos. in 1; also, Hyland (Cat. 219; 1995), lists ]; Irish Fairy and Folk Tales [Camelot Ser.] (1888) [Wade 212]; Poems of Spenser [Jacks Golden Poets iss.] (1906), col. ills. Jessie M King [Wade 235] & Coinage of Saorstat Eireann (1928) [Wade 317], 11 pls. Peter Ellis Books (Cat. 2004) lists ed., Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (London: Walter Scott 1888), 1st edn. w/o adds. and errata, contains misspelled Yates on spine; unlisted in Wade [£350]. Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (San Francisco; Cat 17 [2004]): The Wanderings of Oisin (London: Kegan Paul, Trench 1889), 1st edn.; ltd. edn. 500; preceded by the single poem Mosada; orig. dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, roman type gilt on upper cover, and publisher's emblem in gilt on laower spine; good copy ($2,500). Plays for an Irish Theatre, designs by Gordon Craig (London: A. H. Bullen 1911), 1st edn.; orig. quarter white cloth, paper label, ribbon marker, brown end-papers; mostly unopened ($300). Per Amica Silentia Lunae (London: Macmillan 1918, orig. blue cover with gilt design by T. Sturge Moore ($250). [ top ]
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