Essays and introductions
"This Collier Books edition of William Butler Yeats' Essays and Introductions make available for the first time in America an inexpensive collection of the Poets-playwright's literary criticism. It contains over forty essays on subjects ranging from Shelley, Blake, Spenser, and Synge to summary statements on Shakespeare's history plays, symbolism in poetry and painting, Noh drama, poetry and tradition, art, and ideas. The long essay "Modern Poetry" which includes Yeats' assessments of T.S Eliot, Edith Sitwell, W.H. Auden and many others, is of signal importance, as are "A general Introduction for my Work" and "An Introduction for my Plays," which embody his philosophy of poetry and drama. A stunning reminder that Yeats could work enchantment in prose as well as poetry, these essays and introductions brilliantly voice the aesthetics ideas and value judgements of one of the great poets of all time" - Publisher
Print Book, English, 1961
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1961