Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes a comprehensive and annotated selection of Yeats's major writings: 145 poems from Crossways through Last Poems including five poems in both early and revised versions; the plays Cathleen ni Houlihan, On Baile's Strand, At the Hawk's Well , and Purgatory; prose fiction and folklore from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose , and Stories of Red Hanrahan; autobiographical writings from Reveries over Childhood and Youth through the posthumously published Memoirs; and selections from critical writings. Commentators include Oscar Wilde, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Helen Vendler, Harold Bloom, Richard Ellman and Seamus Heaney. A Yeats chronology is included. No subject index.