Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1978919 in Books
• Published on: 1994-09-30
• Released on: 1994-09-30
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.57" h x 5.78" w x 8.88" l, 1.91 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

From Library Journal
Yeats wrote these 19 essays, together here for the first time, from 1912 onwards; he included some in the Cuala Press volume Essays 1931-1936 and selected others for various editions of his collected works. Most important among them are the elegant "Per Amica Silentia Lunae," which discusses the mask theory, death, and spiritism, and the idiosyncratic introduction to the 1936 Oxford Book of Modern Verse . Several others deal with Indian themes. The meticulous nature of the editing can be judged by the fact that appendixes, notes, and other scholarly apparatus make up more than half the book. Most academic and all large public libraries must consider this excellent edition a necessary purchase.
- Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
Compiling nineteen essays and introductions, a volume with explanatory notes includes Per Amica Silentia Lunae and On the Boiler as well as introductions on Shelley and Balzac and essays on Irish poetry and politics.

About the Author
William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland's greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most 

important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.