This selection of 239 poems is supported by a critical introduction, very full explanatory notes, a bibliographical summary of Yeats's life, maps, a glossary of Irish names and places and their pronunciation and a bibliography. For this second edition, the notes have been thoroughly revised and updated.

A. NORMAN JEFFARES is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling. He has taught at the Universities of Dublin, Groningen, Edinburgh, Adelaide and Leeds. He has edited and written many books on Irish and other authors, and is General Editor of the Macmillan History of Literature, to which he has contributed Anglo-Irish Literature (1982). Macmillan also publish his New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (1984).