- Includes over a dozen original illustrations- Includes critical essays on Yeats, his life and his ideas, placing his work within the context of his time, as well as an up-to-date bibliography of works on YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was also a profound critic and essayist, who wrote perceptively on a wide variety of topics. This volume contains essays from three volumes published during Yeats’s Ideas of Good and Evil, first published in 1903; The Cutting of an Agate, first published in 1915, and Essays 1931 to 1936, first published in 1937. It also contains essays published by Yeats in periodicals or edited volumes, but not included in these collections. It forms the most complete single volume of his essays available in any format, and it is essential to understanding the work of this great genius.This Kindle edition has been professionally edited and corrected to meet the highest scholarly standards, and it contains an active table of contents.