ers and students of Yeats have long wondered which of the many avail-able editions of his poems they should use. James Pethica has solved their problems with Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose. This offers not only the familiar riches of a Norton Critical Edition (available in no other edition), but a brilliant innovation both early and late texts of certain poems--to illustrate the devel-opment of the greatest twentieth-century poet of our language."This Norton Critical Edition of Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose represents a major new addition to the series.

Introduction

A Note on the Texts

Acknowledgments

Poems

FROM CROSSWAYS (1889)

  The Song of the Happy Shepherd

  The Sad Shepherd

  The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes

  The Indian to His Love

 The Falling of the Leaves

  Ephemera (2 versions)

  The Stolen Child

  To an Isle in the Water

  Down by the Salley Gardens

  The Meditation of the Old Fisherman

 FROM TIlE ROSE (1892)

  To the Rose upon the Rood of Time

  Fergus and the Druid

  The Rose of the World

  The Lake Isle of Innisffee

  The Pity of Love

  The Sorrow of Love (2 versions)

  When You are Old

  The White Birds

  [Who goes with Fergus?]

  The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists (2 versions)

  The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner (2 versions)

  To Ireland in the Coming Times

 FROM THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS (1899)

  The Hosting of the Sidhe

The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart

 The Fisherman [The Fish]

  The Song of Wandering Aengus

  The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love

  He reproves the Curlew

  He remembers Forgotten Beauty

  A Poet to his Beloved

  He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes

  To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear

  The Cap and Bells

  He hears the Cry of the Sedge

He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved

 The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends

  He wishes his Beloved were Dead

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

 FROM IN THE SEVEN WOODS (1903)

  In the Seven Woods

  The Arrow

  The Folly of Being Comforted

  Never Give all the Heart

  Adam's Curse

Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland

  The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

O Do Not Love Too Long

 FROM THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS (1910)

His Dream

  A Woman Homer Sung

The Consolation [Words]

No Second Troy

Reconciliation

The Fascination of What's Difficult

A Drinking Song

The Coming of Wisdom with Time

On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature

To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets,Imitators of His and Mine

The Mask

Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation

All Things can Tempt Me

The Young Man's Song [Brown Penny]

 FROM RESPONSIBILITIES (1914)

[Introductory Rhymes]

To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures

September 1913

  To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing

Paudeen

The Three Beggars

Beggar to Beggar Cried

Ⅰ. The Witch

Ⅱ. The Peacock

To a Child Dancing in the Wind

[Two Years Later]

Fallen Majesty 

……

Plays

Prose

Criticism