The English Letters Collection

The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats 

“magnificent ... The detail is immense and spot on, so that the footnotes read as a continuous, densely peopled, unfailingly informative documentary on the life and times of the sedulous correspondent ... the start of an edition that is going to be one of the great publishing events of the decade.”
Seamus Heaney
Observer 

“near-miraculous achievement...not only impeccably scholarly, but exquisitely entertaining....This edition paints a consummate portrait of the self and the struggles: one comes away from it dizzy with admiration for the accomplishment of subject and editors alike.”
Roy Foster
University of Oxford

Database Language: English

Contents:  The collected letters of W.B. Yeats. Edited by John Kelly, Eric Domville, Warwick Gould, Ronald Schuchard, Deirdre Toomey et al. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986-.

OUP has issued 3 volumes (of a projected 15) in this monumental edition. The database contains the three published volumes of Yeats letters and commentary, plus the Yeats letters from the remaining 12 (unpublished) volumes. The Yeats letters are therefore included complete, most appearing here for the first time in any medium. Additional commentary volumes will be added to the database one year after they are issued in print (see notes).

This database decisively changes the landscape not only of Yeats scholarship, but study of 20th century English literature and history generally. For Yeats was a central figure across and beyond the arts in England and Ireland for a period of 50 years. His interests and acquaintances serve to define the era. 

The general editor of the edition is John Kelly, St John's College, Oxford. Volume one is co-edited with Kelly by Eric Domville, University of Toronto. Volume two is co-edited with Kelly by Warwick Gould, University of London and Deirdre Toomey, Research Editor of Yeats Annual. Volume three is co-edited with Kelly by Ronald Schuchard, Emory University.

License Pricing

Yeats: Collected Letters		CD-ROM	Web Server	SGML	Credit
Individual		$600	n/a	n/a	n/a
Institutional		$1500	n/a	n/a	n/a
Campus-wide		$3000	$3000	call	n/a
ISBN#	Windows	1-57085-406-8	1-57085-393-2
	Macintosh	1-57085-463-7

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