The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama and Prose (revised edition)

Richard J. Finneran is an indefatigable editor of the writings of the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865‐1939). The Yeats Reader (revised edition) is a selection from texts published in the Scribner and Palgrave Collected Edition of Yeats’ works, General editors, Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. In the volume under review, there are extracts from Yeats’ Autobiographies, edited by William H. O’Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald (1999); Later Essays, edited by William H. O’Donnell (1994); The Plays, edited by David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark (2001); and Finneran’s 1997 2nd edition of...