W. B. Yeats

Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a collection of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, first published in 1921. The collection is divided into two sections, with the first section containing poems that explore the themes of love, loss, and the human condition, while the second section focuses on the character of Michael Robartes, a fictional figure who serves as a symbol of the poet's own spiritual and artistic quest. The poems in the first section are characterized by Yeats' use of vivid imagery and rich symbolism, as he explores themes such as the transience of life, the power of memory, and the search for meaning in a world that can often seem chaotic and uncertain. The second section of the book is more experimental in nature, with Yeats using Robartes as a vehicle for exploring his own ideas about the nature of art, spirituality, and the creative process. Throughout the collection, Yeats displays his mastery of language and his ability to weave complex ideas and themes into his poetry. Michael Robartes and the Dancer is considered one of Yeats' most important works and is a must-read for anyone interested in modern poetry and the Irish literary tradition. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Here Yeats tells of encounters with the faerie folk of Ireland, providing insight into Irish folklore, myth and legend. In his own words... "I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world.... I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined." Yeats

The Resurrection was first performed at the Abbey Theatre on 30 July 1934. Yeats had sketched the play's first scenarios in 1925, and worked on it intermittently for the next nine years. For the author, the work was a kind of study piece for communicating to a general audience his investigations into patterns of historical recurrence. In The Resurrection Yeats asks how the avatar of a new era can be dramatized as a true anomaly, capable of revitalizing a declining civilization through the power of magic or miracle. The play takes the form of a series of questions and answers between three interlocutors (the Greek, the Hebrew, and the Syrian) as they confront the miracle of the risen Christ. As the play ends, Yeats emphasizes the political implications of miracle, which has the sublime and terrifying power to undo the existing but exhausted order and usher in a new epoch. The Cornell Yeats edition presents photographs and transcriptions of the manuscripts, typescripts, and proof pages by which we may trace the author's textual revisions for The Resurrection, leading to its publication in 1932 in Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends and two years later in Wheels and Butterflies and Collected Plays. The drafts of the Introduction to the play are presented, as well. An Appendix presents images of Arthur Duff's score for the songs of The Resurrection. Jared Curtis and Selina Guinness preface the text with a census of manuscripts and an introduction discussing the content of the play and the long history of its composition, including the First Version (1925/6–1927), the Second Version (1929–1934), and the Introduction (1931–1934). The arduous process of revision through which the author humanized his characters and dramatized the dry theological arguments of the early drafts is revealed with remarkable clarity.