BL. W. B. Yeats

120. Bradford, Curtis B. Yeats at Work. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1965.

Includes transcriptions of Yeats’s manuscript notes about and drafts of several works, including At the Hawk’s Well (12), The Resurrection (28), The Words Upon the Window Pane (34), A Full Moon in March (37b), and Purgatory (44b), along with comments about Yeats’s revisions and the relation of the manuscript notes and drafts to the published versions. Of particular interest here are manuscript versions of At the Hawk’s Well, and notes about how Yeats changed his conception of the work after he learned that Itô (Ap) would be able to dance the role of the hawk (see pp. 174-211).