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Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal''s classic selection of Yeats''s poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats''s most startling dramatic works in its realistic use of a seance as the setting for an eerily powerful reenactment of Jonathan Swift''s rigorous idealism, baffling love relationships, and tragic madness. The collection profits from recent scholarship that has helped to establish Yeats''s most reliable texts, in the order set by the poet himself. And his powerful lyrical sequences are amply represented, culminating in the selection from Last Poems and Two Plays, which reaches its climax in the brilliant poetic plays The Death of Cuchulain and Purgatory.
Scholars, students, and all who delight in Yeats''s varied music and sheer quality will rejoice in this expanded edition. As the introduction obse

Selected Poems and Four Plays

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      Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/10/1996
      ISBN13: 9780684826462, 978-0684826462
      ISBN10: 0684826461

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal''s classic selection of Yeats''s poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats''s most startling dramatic works in its realistic use of a seance as the setting for an eerily powerful reenactment of Jonathan Swift''s rigorous idealism, baffling love relationships, and tragic madness. The collection profits from recent scholarship that has helped to establish Yeats''s most reliable texts, in the order set by the poet himself. And his powerful lyrical sequences are amply represented, culminating in the selection from Last Poems and Two Plays, which reaches its climax in the brilliant poetic plays The Death of Cuchulain and Purgatory.
      Scholars, students, and all who delight in Yeats''s varied music and sheer quality will rejoice in this expanded edition. As the introduction obse

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