Yeats at Work

By Curtis B. Bradford

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880012412
• ISBN13: 9780880012416
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Study of Yeats' Poetry in Manuscript

This is a study of a selection of Yeat's poems in manuscript. The complete version in hardcover contains material on his plays and prose writings as well. Bradford notes, "With many late poems it is possible to study the entire external process of composition, beginning with their prose sketches and continuing through successive drafts until Yeats corrects the final typescript." This book reveals the steps in this process. This is an extremely interesting book for anyone interested in the process of creation. My favorite quotation is from the final page. It explains in part the success of a great poet. " . . . he never allowed his equipment to rust unused. Early and late he worked at his art strenuously. It is this continued faith in works that in part distinguished him from lesser poets, that and an unusual ability to stay at a poem until it came right."