Description: This latest volume in The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats -- the fourteen-volume series that presents definitive editions of virtually all of the Nobel Laureate's published work -- is devoted to prose written in the last half of Yeats's life and not previously gathered into a prose collection.

The fifty-four pieces presented here reflect Yeats's maturity as a writer. The Irish lyric poet writes -- with grace, wit, and passion -- on the state of Ireland in the world; on Irish language and literature; on his literary contemporaries; on his own dramatic works; on the Abbey Theatre; and on divorce, censorship, and the need for audacity of thought. Also included are the texts of ten radio programs Yeats broadcast between 1931 and 1937. (While most of the original BBC recordings were destroyed during World War II bombings, editor Colton Johnson has succeeded in reconstructing the texts through scripts and stray recordings.) These broadcasts constitute the largest previously uncollected body of Yeats's published work -- perhaps the most important writings to remain largely unstudied.

Filling a significant gap in Yeats scholarship, Later Articles and Reviews will appeal to academic, library, and literary audiences.

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