Yeats: A Collection of Critical Essays

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by John Unterecker, W. H. Auden, High Kenner, Giogio Melchiori, Frank Kermode, W. Y. Tindall, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Alex Zwerdling, Curtis Bradford, D. J. Gordon, Ian Fletcher, A. G. Stock, Allen Tate, and Richard Ellmann–all dealing with the biography and literary work of William Butler Yeats. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. Essays include “Faces and False Faces,””The Symbolism of W. B. Yeats,””W. B. Yeats: Variations on the Visionary Quest,””Byzantium,” and “Yeats’ Romanticism.” Achronology of important dates in Yeats’ life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a selected bibliography of works on Yeats complete the volume.

Part of the Twentieth Century Views series.