Prefaces and Introductions: Uncollected Prefaces and Introductions by Yeats to Works by other Authors and to Anthologies Edited by Yeats

395 Pages·1988·35.41 MB·English

by  William H. O’Donnell (eds.)

THE COLLECTED EDITION OF THE
WORKS OF W. B. YEATS
General Editors,' Richard J. Finneran and
George Mills Harper
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
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THE CELTIC TWILIGHT AND THE SECRET ROSE
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EARLY ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
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EARL Y ESSAYS
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THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT
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JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA
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LETTERS TO THE NEW ISLAND
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THE PLAYS
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THE POEMS: A NEW EDITION
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PREFACES AND INTRODUCTIONS
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A VISION (1925)
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A VISION (1937)
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B. YEATS
Prefaces and
Introductions
Uncollected Prefaces and Introductions by Yeats to
Works by other Authors and to Anthologies Edited by Yeats
EDITED BY
William H. O'Donnell
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CONTENTS
EDITOR'S PREFACE x
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XVlll
LIST OF PLATES XXI
PREFACES AND INTRODUCTIONS
Introduction and headnotes to Fairy and Folk Tales of the
Irish Peasantry, ed. W. B. Yeats (1888) 3
'William Carleton', in Storiesfrom Carleton, ed. W. B. Yeats
(1889) 23
Introduction and headnotes (1890) to Representative Irish
Tales, ed. W. B. Yeats (1891) 29
Introduction ('An Irish Story-teller'), acknowledgement
note, 'The Classification of Irish Fairies', and
'Authorities on Irish Folklore' (1891), in Irish Fairy Tales,
ed. W. B. Yeats (1892) 58
'William Allingham 1824-1889' (1891), in The Poets and the
Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892) 68
'Ellen O'Leary 1831-1889' (1891), in The Poets and the
Poetry ojthe Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892) 71
Preface (c. 1892) to The Works of William Blake: Poetic,
Symbolic, and Critical, ed. Edwin]. Ellis and W. B. Yeats,
3 vols (1893) 74
v
vi Contents
Introduction to Poems of William Blake, ed. W. B. Yeats
(1893, rev. 1905) 79
'Modern Irish Poetry' (1894; rev. 1899, c. 1903, 1908),
repro from A Book ofI rish Verse Selectedfrom Modem Writers,
ed. W. B. Yeats (1895, rev. 1900) 102
'Lionel Johnson' (1898; rev. 1900, 1908), repro from A
Treasury ofI rish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A.
Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900) 111
'AE' (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the
English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W.
Rolleston (1900) 113
'Nora Hopper' (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish
Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and
T. W. Rolleston (1900) 116
'Althea Gyles', in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English
Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston
(1900) 118
'Thoughts on Lady Gregory's Translations': Prefaces
(1902, 1903; rev. 1905, 1908, 1912), repro from Lady
Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) and Gods and
Fighting Men (1904) 119
Preface to The Love Songs of Connacht: Being the Fourth
Chapter of the Songs of Connacht, collected and tr. Douglas
Hyde (1904) 135
Preface to Lionel Johnson, 'Poetry and Patriotism', in
Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and LionelJohnson
(1908) 136
Preface to John M. Synge, Deirdre of the Sorrows: A Play
(1910) 137
Introduction to Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany
(1912) 138
Contents vii
Preface to Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office, tr.
Devabrata Mukerjea (1914) 144
Preface (1921) toJohn M. Synge, Shingu Gikyoku Zenshu
('Collected Plays of Synge'), tr. Mineko Matsumura
(1923) 145
Introduction to Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other
Fairy Tales (1923) 147
Preface to John Butler Yeats, Early Memories: Some Chapters
of Autobiography (1923) 152
Preface (1923) to Oliver Stjohn Gogarty, An Offering of
Swans and Other Poems (1924) 154
Preface (1924) toJean Marie Matthias Philippe Auguste
Count de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Axel, tr. H. P. R.
Finberg (1925) 156
Introduction to The Midnight Court, from Brian Merriman
and Donagh Rua Macnamara, The Midnight Court and
The Adventures ofa Luckless Fellow, tr. Percy Arland Ussher
(1926) 159
Prefatory letter to the Medici Society, in William Blake,
Songs of Innocence, illus.Jacynth Parsons (1927) 164
Introduction to The Coinage of Saorstat Eireann (1928) 166
Preface (1929) to Oliver St John Gogarty, Wild Apples
(1930) 172
'Anglo-Irish Ballads', by F. R. Higgins and W. B. Yeats,
in Broadsides: A Collection of Old and New Songs (1935) 175
Introduction (1935) to Selections from the Poems of Dorothy
Wellesley (1936) 182
Introduction (1936) to Margot Ruddock, The Lemon Tree
(1937) 186
viii Contents
'Music and Poetry', by W. B. Yeats and Dorothy
Wellesley, in Broadsides: A Collection of New Irish and
English Songs (1937) 191
APPENDIXES
Notes by Yeats (and/or Douglas Hyde) to items other
than Yeats's introductions and headnotes, in Fairy
and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. W. B. Yeats
(1888) 194
2 Notes by Yeats to items other than his introduction
and headnotes, in Representative Irish Tales, ed. W. B.
Yeats (1891) 200
3 Notes by Yeats (or of un traced origin) to items other
than his introduction, in Irish Fairy Tales, ed. W. B.
Yeats (1892) 201
4 Acknowledgements, in Poems of William Blake, ed.
W. B. Yeats, 2nd edn (1905) 202
5 Notes, in Poems oj William Blake, ed. W. B. Yeats, 2nd
edn (1905) 202
6 First edition version of a passage on contemporary
Irish poets, in Introduction (1894), A Book of Irish
Verse Selected from Modern Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats
(1895) 216
7 Notes, A Book of Irish Verse Selectedfrom Modern Writers,
ed. W. B. Yeats (1895) 217
8 Preface (1899) to A Book of Irish Verse Selected from
Modern Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats, 2nd edn (1900) 223
9 Excerpt from acknowledgements, in A Book of Irish
Verse Selectedfrom Modern Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats, 2nd
edn (1900) 224
Contents ix
10 Sections I and II of 'Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of
Muirthemne', in Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and
Tradition; and Other Essays, vol. VIII of The Collected
Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (1908) 224
11 Endnote, titled 'Note by W. B. Yeats on the
Conversation ofCuchulain and Emer (Page 23)', to
page 23 ('The Courting of Emer: Cuchu1ain's
Riddles'), in Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne
(1902) 226
12 Section VIII of 'What We Did or Tried to Do', In
Coinage of Saorstdt Eireann (1928) 227
13 Prefatory paragraph to the introduction to Selections
from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley (1936) 228
14 Anonymous headnote to the introduction to Dorothy
Wellesley, The Poets and Other Poems (1943) 228
15 Letter from Yeats to In-sob Jung [Zong], in An
Anthology of Modern Poems in Korea: (100 Poets and 100
Poems), ed. and tr. In[-]sob Zong (1948) 228
NOTES 229
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTIONS 317
COPY-TEXTS USED FOR THIS EDITION 338
EMENDATIONS TO THE COPY-TEXTS 343
INDEX 356