Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E900041-001

A Selection from the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Author: William Butler Yeats

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber, Sara Sponholz

Proof corrections by Beatrix Färber, Sara Sponholz

Funded by School of History, University College, Cork

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 6630 words

Publication

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
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(2011) (2014)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E900041-001

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.

Sources

    Literature (a small selection)
  1. For text of Irish poem of Baile and Ailinn, see O'Curry, Lectures on the MS materials of Ancient Irish History (Dublin 1878), 464–475 (poemn in Book of Leinster).
  2. 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).
  3. Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks. Corrected edition with a new preface (Oxford 1979). [First published New York 1948; reprinted London 1961.]
  4. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, The variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats (New York: Macmillan 1957).
  5. W. B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions (New York: Macmillan 1961).
  6. W. B. Yeats, Explorations: selected by Mrs W. B.Yeats (London/New York: Macmillan 1962).
  7. Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (New York 1964).
  8. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats (Stanford 1984).
  9. Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Oxford/New York 2007).
  10. 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
  1. A Selection from the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats. William Butler Yeats First edition [30 pp.] Churchtown, Dundrum (1913) The Cuala Press

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling Declaration

The whole selection.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been proof-read twice.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text. Lines (or parts of them) reproduced in italics in the printed edition are tagged rend="ital".

Hyphenation

The editorial practice of the hard-copy editor has been retained.

Segmentation

div0 =the poem miscellany; div1= 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.

Canonical References

This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the poem.

Profile Description

Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Date range: 1890–1911.

Use of language

Language: [EN] The poems are in English.

Revision History