Editing Yeatss Poems

Download or read book Editing Yeats’s Poems written by Richard J Finneran and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.