Includes a comprehensive and annotated selection of Yeats"s major writings: 145 poems from Crossways through Last Poems including five poems in both early and revised versions; the plays Cathleen ni Houlihan, On Baile"s Strand, At the Hawk"s Well , and Purgatory ; prose fiction and folklore from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose , and Stories of Red Hanrahan ; autobiographical writings from Reveries over Childhood and Youth through the posthumously published Memoirs ; and selections from critical writings. Commentators include Oscar Wilde, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Helen Vendler, Harold Bloom, Richard Ellman and Seamus Heaney. A Yeats chronology is included. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)