Editing Yeats’s Poems

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Editing Yeats’s Poems is written by Richard J Finneran and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349110205 (ISBN 10) and 9781349110209 (ISBN 13).

This study is a companion to the revised edition of W.B.Yeats, The Poems: A New Edition. Professor Finneran outlines the complex problems facing an editor of Yeats's poetry and explains the solutions adopted in the new text. Manuscript materials are drawn on extensively, including some which have recently come to light in the Scribner Archives at the University of Texas and at Princeton University. Compared with the first edition of this volume (Editing Yeats's Poems, 1983), there is an additional chapter - on the order of the poems - as well as new information on the Scribner Edition and other revisions throughout.