Early Essays

This volume includes the contents of the two most important collections of Yeats's critical prose,Ideas of Good and Evil(1903) andThe Cutting of an Agate(1912, 1919). Among the seminal essays are considerations of Blake, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, as well as an extended discussion of the Japanese Noh theatre. The first scholarly edition of these materials,Early Essaysoffers a corrected text and detailed annotation of all allusions. Several appendices include materials from early printings which were later excluded, as well as black and white illustrations.Finneran, Richard J. is the author of 'Early Essays ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781403904164 and ISBN 1403904162.