Yearbook of English Studies, January 1st, 1999
Books are not innocent. They have designs on the texts they contain and on their readers. For Yeats's more discerning commentators this much has been evident since the beginning of his publishing career. With no doubt Poems (1895) on his mind, T. W. Rolleston remarked as early as 1900: Few poets have revised and retouched their work more than Mr. Yeats, and this may perhaps be one cause of the singular unity of the impression which it leaves upon the mind. In the final edition of his poems, where much is altered and much early work struck out altogether, one sees naturally but little sign of ...
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