In this series a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet from the past

Yeats's first collection published after receiving the Nobel Prize, The Tower is perhaps the major work that most cemented his reputation as one of the foremost literary figures of his…

This reader’s guide follows the often heated critical debates on who Yeats was and what kind of poetry he wrote. Michael Faherty offers selections from the leading voices in these…

This volume, a reissue of the 1990 edition of Jeffares’s biography of Yeats, with a new introduction and bibliography, is an account of Yeats’s life and work. It features a…

One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is among the greatest poets to have written in the English language. Professor Jeffares investigates the…

This introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most important writers examines Yeats’s poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. While using this introduction, students…

This selection of 239 poems is supported by a critical introduction, very full explanatory notes, a bibliographical summary of Yeats’s life, maps, a glossary of Irish names and places and…

This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic ‘peasant’ drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking…