Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E930001-100
Supernatural Songs
Author: William Butler Yeats
Background details and bibliographic information
File Description
Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber
Funded by School of History, University College, Cork
1. First draft.
Extent of text: 1910 words
Publication
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College Road, Cork, Irelandhttp://www.ucc.ie/celt (2014) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E930001-100
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 1934 in The King of the Great Clock-Tower. That version contains only the first eight parts of the poem. A revised and enlarged version published in 'A Full Moon in March' (see n.2 under 'Editions' below).
Sources
Editions- W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock-Tower (=A Full Moon in March) (Dublin: Cuala Press 1934)
- W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March, part 3, 'Parnell's Funeral and other Poems' (London 1935).
- W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock-Tower, and Commentaries and Poems [Facsimile reprint of 1st edition, Dublin 1934] (Shannon: Irish University Press 1970).
- W. B. Yeats, 'The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats', A new edition', edited by Richard J. Finneran, 1983 [reprinted].
Literature (selection)- T. K. Dunseath, 'Yeats and the Genesis of Supernatural Song', ELH 28/4, December 1961, 399416.
- Helen Vendler, 'New Wine in Old Bottles: Yeats's 'Supernatural Songs'', The Southern Review, Spring 1991, 399406.
- Patrick F. Sheeran, 'Legends of the Supernatural in Anglo-Irish Literature: The Migration of Signs: Third Response to Brian Earl's Paper', Béaloideas 60/61 (1992/92), 157160.
- Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Oxford/New York 2007).
- A 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 Supernatural Poems in , Ed. Richard J. Finneran The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Macmillan Press, London, (1991) page 283289
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, div1= the part, 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 part.
Profile Description
Created: By William Butler Yeats (18651939).
Date range: between March 1933 and December 1934.
Use of language
Language: [EN] The poem is in English.
Revision History
- (2014-02-06)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- SGML and HTML files created.
- (2014-02-04)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- TEI header created; file parsed and validated. Structural markup applied according to CELT practice.
- (1996?)
Students at the CELT Project, UCC (ed.)
- First proofing.
- (1996?)
Students at the CELT Project, UCC (data capture)
- Text captured