Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-057
Easter, 1916
Author: William Butler Yeats
Background details and bibliographic information
File Description
Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Rebecca Daly
Funded by School of History, University College, Cork
1. First draft.
Extent of text: 1123 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: E910001-057
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 1916, in "an edition of 25 copies 'privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends', and subsequently in the New Statesman (23 October 1920)" (A. Norman Jeffares, p. 225) and in the Dial for Nov. 1920 (Mayhew, p. 53).
Sources
Literature (a small selection)- 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 Easter, 1916 in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Easter, 1916 (A Poem). Privately printed by Clement Shorter, London, (1916) pages 5pp
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: (25 September 1916)
Use of language
Language: [EN] The poem is in English.
Revision History