William Butler Yeats (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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William Butler Yeats was a playwright as well as a poet. During certain periods in his career he devoted more time and energy to the composition, publication, and production of plays in verse or prose than to the writing of nondramatic poetry. These plays, excluding several early closet dramas, were republished singly or in various collections from 1892 through the year of his death. The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats was published in 1934, and a “new edition with five additional plays” appeared in 1952 (London) and 1953 (New York), the former...

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