The two-volume edition of the Irish poet’s works includes everything he has done in verse up to the present time. The first volume contains his lyrics; the second includes all of his five dramas in verse: “The Countess Cathleen,” “The Land of Heart’s Desire,” “The King’s Threshold,” “On Baile’s Strand,” and “The Shadowy Waters.”
William Butler Yeats stands among the few men to be reckoned with in modern poetry, especially of a dramatic character. The New York Sun, for example, refers to him as “an important factor in English literature,” and continues:—
“‘Cathleen ni Hoolihan’ is a perfect piece of artistic work, poetic and wonderfully dramatic to read, and, we should imagine, far more dramatic in the acting. Maeterlinck has never done anything so true or effective as this short prose drama of Mr. Yeats’s. There is not a superfluous word in the play and no word that does not tell. It must be dangerous to represent it in Ireland, for it is an Irish Marseillaise.... In ‘The Hour Glass’ a noble and poetic idea is carried out effectively, while ‘A Pot of Broth’ is merely a dramatized humorous anecdote. But ‘Cathleen ni Hoolihan’ stirs the blood, and in itself establishes Mr. Yeats’s reputation for good.”
Other Works
| The Celtic Twilight | 12mo, $1.50 net | |
| The Hour Glass and Other Plays | 12mo, $1.25 net | |
| Ideas of Good and Evil | 12mo, $1.50 net | |
| In the Seven Woods | 12mo, $1.00 net |
W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays 12mo, $1.50 net
Fires
By W. W. GIBSON
Author of “Daily Bread,” “Womenkind,” etc.