Yeats's Legacies

Warwick Gould

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The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which these advanced research essays find their theme. Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s versecraft challenges Poundian definitions of Modernism; Denis Donoghue offers unique family memories of 1916 whilst tracing the political significance of the Easter Rising; Anita Feldman addresses Yeats’s responses to the Rising’s appropriation of his symbols and myths, the daring artistry of his ritual drama developed from Noh, his poetry of personal utterance, and his vision of art as a body reborn rather than a treasure preserved amid the testing of the illusions that hold civilizations together in ensuing wars. Warwick Gould looks at Yeats as founding Senator in the new Free State, and his valiant struggle against the literary censorship law of 1929 (with its present-day legacy of Irish anti-blasphemy law still presenting a constitutional challenge). Drawing on Gregory Estate documents, James Pethica looks at the evictions which preceded Yeats’s purchase of Thoor Ballylee in Galway; Lauren Arrington looks back at Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Ghosts of The Winding Stair (1929) in Rapallo. Having co-edited both versions of A Vision, Catherine Paul offers some profound reflections on ‘Yeats and Belief’. Grevel Lindop provides a pioneering view of Yeats’s impact on English mystical verse and on Charles Williams who, while at Oxford University Press, helped publish the Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Stanley van der Ziel looks at the presence of Shakespeare in Yeats’s Purgatory. William H. O’Donnell examines the vexed textual legacy of his late work, On the Boiler while Gould considers the challenge Yeats’s intentionalism posed for once-fashionable post-structuralist editorial theory. John Kelly recovers a startling autobiographical short story by Maud Gonne. While nine works of current biographical, textual and literary scholarship are reviewed, Maud Gonne is the focus of debate for two reviewers, as are Eva Gore-Booth, Constance and Casimir Markievicz, Rudyard Kipling, David Jones, T. S. Eliot and his presence on the radio.

Sujets

• Institute of English Studies
• Ireland
• Poetry
• Dráma
• William Butler Yeats

Informations

• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9781783744572
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THAT ACCUSING EYE : YEATS AND HIS IRISH READERS YEATS ANNUAL No. 12: A Special Number Edited by Warwick Gould and Edna Longley
YEATS AND THE NINETIES YEATS ANNUAL No. 14: A Special Number Edited by Warwick Gould
YEATS ’S COLLABORATIONS YEATS ANNUAL No. 15: A Special Number Edited by Wayne K. Chapman and Warwick Gould
POEMS AND CONTEXTS YEATS ANNUAL No. 16: A Special Number Edited by Warwick Gould
INFLUENCE AND CONFLUENCE YEATS ANNUAL No. 17: A Special Number Edited by Warwick Gould
THE LIVING STREAM YEATS ANNUAL No. 18: A Special Issue Essays in Memory of A. Norman Jeffares Edited by Warwick Gould Freely available at http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/194
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YEATS ANNUAL No. 21


W. B. Yeats in the fin de siècle . The Elliot & Fry image, purchased from an untraced picture archive. From pencilled notes on the verso, the image was copyrighted to Elliot & Fry, and each reproduction incurred a fee of 14/– to the London Electrotype Agency. A fee of that sum had been paid for Richardson, ‘The World Writers’, perhaps a series in an untraced periodical, and the image had been filed with ‘English Portraits of Yeats’. © Private Collection, London, all rights reserved.


YEATS’S LEGACIES
YEATS ANNUAL No. 21
A Special Issue
Edited by Warwick Gould


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Cover image: Yeats Annual Fleuron (Front Cover, Spine, Dedication Page) Based upon Thomas Sturge Moore’s rose design as used in his illustrations for H. P. R. Finberg’s translation of Count Villiers de L’Isle Adam’s Axel with Yeats’s preface (London: Jarrolds Publishers Ltd., 1925), and elsewhere on cover designs for Yeats’s books, most notably that for Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918), this fleuron was created courtesy of the late Riette Sturge Moore.
Front Cover Vignette: The hawk is taken from the top-board of Responsibilities and Other Poems (London: Macmillan, 1916), Private Coll., London, Image Warwick Gould. The design is by Thomas Sturge Moore, showing Yeats’s change of livery when he moved his books to Macmillan as his principal trade publisher. The book was published on 10 October 1916, the same day as that firm issued his Reveries over Childhood and Youth , also with a Sturge Moore cover-design.
Cover design: Anna Gatti.
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The Editor dedicates his work on this volume to WILLIAM H. O’DONNELL in gratitude for his meticulous textual scholarship and restless curiosity in annotation




Contents
List of Illustrations
xiii
Abbreviations
xix
Editorial Board
xxvii
Notes on Contributors
xxix
Editor’s Introduction
xxxv
Acknowledgements and Editorial Information
lxix
ESSAYS
How Yeats Learned to Scan
HANNAH SULLIVAN
3
EASTER 1916
DENIS DONOGHUE
39
The Invisible Hypnotist: Myth and Spectre in Some Post-1916 Poems and Plays by W. B. Yeats
ANITA FELDMAN
63
‘Satan, Smut & Co.’: Yeats and the Suppression of Evil Literature in the Early Years of the Irish Free State
WARWICK GOULD
123
‘Uttering, mastering it’? Yeats’s Tower, Lady Gregory’s Ballylee, and the Eviction of 1888
JAMES PETHICA
213
Fighting Spirits: W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Ghosts of The Winding Stair (1929)
LAUREN ARRINGTON
269
W. B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief (with an Afterword, ‘The Centaur and the Daimon’ by WARWICK GOULD )
CATHERINE E. PAUL
295
Charles Williams and W. B. Yeats
GREVEL LINDOP
317
Shakespeare in Purgatory : ‘A Scene of Tragic Intensity’
STANLEY VAN DER ZIEL
355
The Textual History of Yeats’s On the Boiler
WILLIAM H. O’DONNELL
391
RESEARCH UPDATES
Maud Gonne’s Fictional Affair: ‘A Life’s Sketch’
Edited and with notes by JOHN KELLY
449
Conflicted Legacies: Yeats’s Intentions and Editorial Theory
WARWICK GOULD
479
REVIEW ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
‘Both beautiful, one a gazelle’: An Essay reviewing Sonja Tiernan, Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics and Lauren Arrington, Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz
DEIRDRE TOOMEY
545
W. B. Yeats, On Baile’s Strand: Manuscript Materials , ed. by Jared Curtis and Declan Kiely
RICHARD ALLEN CAVE
557
W. David Soud, Divine Cartographies: God, History and Poeisis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot
GREVEL LINDOP
563
Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult , ed. by Matthew Gibson and Neil Mann
R. A. GILBERT
569
Alexander Bubb, Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siècle
JAD ADAMS
575
Emily C. Bloom, The Wireless past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931–1968
EMILIE MORIN
579
Ezra Pound, Posthumous Cantos , ed. by Massimo Bacigalupo
STODDARD MARTIN
585
Adrian Frazier, The Adulterous Muse: Maud Gonne, Lucien Millevoye and W. B. Yeats with an Afterword by DEIRDRE TOOMEY
STODDARD MARTIN
589
Publications Received
599


List of Illustrations
Note: All enquiries regarding copyrights in individual plates should be made c/o the editor at [e-mail] .
Yeats Annual Fleuron (Front Cover, Spine, Dedication Page) Based upon Thomas Sturge Moore’s rose design as used in his illustrations for H. P. R. Finberg’s translation of Count Villiers de L’Isle Adam’s Axel with Yeats’s preface (London: Jarrolds Publishers Ltd., 1925), and elsewhere on cover designs for Yeats’s books, most notably that for Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918), this fleuron was created courtesy of the late Riette Sturge Moore.
Front Cover Vignette : The hawk is taken from the top-board of Responsibilities and Other Poems (London: Macmillan, 1916), Private Coll., London, Image Warwick Gould. The design is by Thomas Sturge Moore, showing Yeats’s change of livery when he moved his books to Macmillan as his principal trade publisher. The book was published on 10 October 1916, the same day as that firm issued his Reveries over Childhood and Youth , also with a Sturge Moore cover-design.
Frontispiece W. B. Yeats in the fin de siècle . From pencilled notes on the verso, this hitherto unknown image had been copyrighted to Elliot & Fry, and each reproduction incurred a fee of 14/– to the London Electrotype Agency. A fee of that sum had been paid for Richardson, ‘The World Writers’, perhaps a series in an untraced periodical, and the image had been filed with ‘English Portraits of Yeats’ in some newspaper picture archive. © Private Collection, London, all rights reserved.
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