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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS
Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper
General Editors
VOLUME I: The Poems,
ed. Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME II: The Plays,
ed. David R. Clark
VOLUME III: Autobiographies,
ed. Douglas Archibald, J. Fraser Cocks III, and Gretchen L. Schwenker
VOLUME IV: Early Essays,
ed. Warwick Gould
VOLUME V: Later Essays,
ed. William H. O’Donnell and Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux
VOLUME VI: Prefaces and Introductions,
ed. William H. O’Donnell
VOLUME VII: Letters to the New Island,
ed. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer
VOLUME VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement,
ed. Mary FitzGerald
VOLUME IX: Early Articles and Reviews,
ed. John P. Frayne
VOLUME X: Later Articles and Reviews,
ed. Colton Johnson
VOLUME XI: The Celtic Twilight and The Secret Rose,
ed. Warwick Gould, Phillip L. Marcus,
and Michael Sidnell
VOLUME XII: John Shernum and Dhoya,
ed. Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME XIII: A Vision (1925),
ed. Connie K. Hood and Walter Kelly Hood
VOLUME XIV: A Vision (1937),
ed. Connie K. Hood and Walter Kelly Hood
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS
UNCOLLECTED PREFACES AND
INTRODUCTIONS BY YEATS
TO WORKS BY OTHER AUTHORS
AND TO ANTHOLOGIES
EDITED BY YEATS
EDITED BY
William H. O’Donnell
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Copyright © 1989 by Anne Yeats
Editorial matter copyright © 1989 by William H. O’Donnell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Prefaces and introductions: uncollected prefaces and
introductions by Yeats to works by other authors and to anthologies
edited by Yeats / W. B. Yeats: edited by William H. O’Donnell.
p. cm.—(The collected works of W. B. Yeats; v. 6)
Bibliography: p.
ISBN 0-02-592551-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-0259-2551-9
eISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0623-5
1. Prefaces.
2. Ireland—Intellectual life.
3. Literature—History and criticism.
4. English poetry—Irish authors—History and criticism.
I. O’Donnell, William H., 1940—.
II. Title.
III. Series: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Works. 1989. v. 6
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