The Textual History of Yeats’s On the Boiler

William O'Donnell is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Memphis. He edited Yeats's unfinished novel The Speckled Bird (1974, 1977, and 2003), Prefaces and Introductions (1989), Later Essays (which included On the Boiler) (1994), Autobiographies (co-editor, 1999), and Responsibilities: Manuscript Materials (2003). He is author of A Guide to the Prose Fiction to W. B. Yeats (1983) and The Poetry of William Butler Yeats: An Introduction (1986). He has compiled a catalogue raisonné of the art that Yeats owned.