Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E890001-003
Fergus and the Druid
Author: William Butler Yeats
Background details and bibliographic information
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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber
Funded by School of History, University College, Cork
1. First draft.
Extent of text: 950 words
Publication
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Irelandhttp://www.ucc.ie/celt (2014) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E890001-003
Availability [RESTRICTED]
The works by W. B. Yeats are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching.
Notes
First published in May 1892, in the National Observer (A. Norman Jeffares, p. 27).
Sources
Literature (a small selection)- W. B. Yeats, The Rose (1893).
- W. B. Yeats, Poems (London 1895).
- Sir Samuel Ferguson, Poems of Sir Samuel Ferguson (Dublin 1918).
- W. B. Yeats, The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, consisting of Reveries over childhood and youth, The trembling of the veil, and Dramatis personae (New York 1938).
- Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks. Corrected edition with a new preface (Oxford 1979). [First published New York 1948; reprinted London 1961.]
- Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats (New York: Macmillan 1957).
- W. B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions (New York: Macmillan 1961).
- W. B. Yeats, Explorations: selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats (London/New York: Macmillan 1962).
- George Mayhew, 'A Corrected Typescript of Yeats's "Easter 1916"', Huntington Library Quarterly 27/1 (November 1963) 5371.
- Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (New York 1964).
- A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats (Stanford 1984).
- Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Oxford/New York 2007).
- A general bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html
The edition used in the digital edition- William Butler Yeats Fergus and the Druid in , Ed. Richard J. Finneran The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Macmillan Press, London, (1991) pages 3233
Encoding
Project Description
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Sampling Declaration
The whole poem.
Editorial Declaration
Correction
The text has been proof-read twice.
Normalization
The electronic text represents the edited text.
Hyphenation
The editorial practice of the hard-copy editor has been retained.
Segmentation
div0= the individual poem, stanzas are marked lg.
Interpretation
Names of persons (given names), and places are not tagged. Terms for cultural and social roles are not tagged.
Profile Description
Created: (1892)
Use of language
Language: [EN] The poem is in English.
Revision History