W. B. Yeats: Interviews and Recollections Volume 2

238 Pages·1977·28.615 MB·English

by  E. H. Mikhail (eds.)

W. B. Yeats
Interviews and Recollections
Volume 2
Also by E. H. Mikhail
The Social and Cultural Setting of the 189os
john Galsworthy the Dramatist
Comedy and Tragedy
Sean O'Casey: A Bibliography of Criticism
A Bibliography of Modem Irish Drama 1899-1970
Dissertations on Anglo-Irish Drama
The Sting and the Twinkle: Conversations with Sean O'Casey
(co-editor with John 0'R iordan)
J. M. Synge: A Bibliography of Criticism
J. M. Synge: Interviews and Recollections (editor)
British Drama 1900-1950
Contemporary British Drama 1950-1976
W. B. Yeats: Interviews and Recollections, Vol. I (editor)
W. B. YEATS
Interviews and Recollections
Volume
2
Edited by
E. H. Mikhail
ISBN 978-1-349-02997-6 ISBN 978-1-349-02995-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-02995-2
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Contents
Acknowledgements IX
W. B. Yeats Louise Morgan 199
Yeats Smelt the Spirits Louis MacNiece 204
Reminiscences of Yeats Pddraic Colum 205
Black Oxen Passing By Sean O'Casey 212
As Yeats was Going Down Grafton Street Diarmuid Brennan 2 18
De Valera as Play Censor 224
W. B. Yeats Looks Back; Poet Celebrates his Seventieth
Birthday 226
W. B. Yeats Looks Back; Ireland in the Early Days of Abbey
Theatre 230
Mr Yeats Explains Play: Plot of 'Purgatory' is its Meaning;
Dramatist's Answer to US Priest's Query 231
An Interview with W. B. Yeats Shotaro Oshima 233
A Beautiful Friendship Dorothy Wellesley 239
Memories of Yeats Mary M. Colum 241
Yeats as I Knew Him Aodh de Blacam 246
Impressions William Rothenstein 248
Impressions W. ]. Turner 251
Impressions Oliver StJohn Gogarty 255
As Man of the Theatre Lennox Robinson 256
Yeats's Phantasmagoria Frank O'Connor 260
No Shore Beyond Ethel Mannin 271
Reminiscences of 'W. B.' E. R. W[alsh] 276
Castle of the Heroes Maud Gonne 280
Yeats as a Painter Saw Him William Rothenstein 282
The Man and the Dramatist Lennox Robinson 284
May Craig Recalls the Abbey Days May Craig 288
Without the Twilight Edmund Dulac 290
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Yeats as Irish Poet F. R. Higgins 292
Meetings with Yeats Hugh Kingsmill 294
W. B. Yeats James Stephens 297
W. B. Yeats Micheal MacLiamtfir 299
The Yeats I Knew Mary M. Colum 302
Reminiscences of Yeats Oliver St John Gogarty 305
Yeats as I Knew Him Edmund Dulac 313
W. B. Yeats W. R. Rodgers, editor 316
Reminiscences of Yeats Frank O'Connor 333
W. B. Yeats: Chameleon of Genius Clifford Bax 337
Quarrelling with Yeats: A Friendly Recollection Frank O'Connor 339
Encounters with Yeats V. S. Pritchett 346
Glimpses ofW. B. Yeats Austin Clarke 349
Visions of Yeats Walter Starkie 353
Some Memories of W. B. Yeats Brigit Patmore 355
The Yeats I Knew Francis Stuart 364
The Yeats I Knew Monk Gibbon 372
The Yeats I Knew Austin Clarke 381
The Yeats I Knew Earnan de Blaghd 386
W. B. Yeats C. M. Bowra 395
W. B. Yeats-A Generation Later Thomas MacGree'!Y
Appendix: Additional Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
The editor and publishers wish to thank the following who have kindly
given permission for the use of copyright material:
Earmin P. de Blaghd for the extract 'The Yeats I Knew' by Earmin de
Blaghd Snr from The Yeats We Knew, ed. Francis MacManus, published by
Mercier Press, 1965.
British Broadcasting Corporation for 'As Yeats Was Going Down Grafton
Street' by Diarmuid Brennan from the Listener, LXXI, Feb 1964.
Curtis Brown Ltd for the extract 'W. B. Yeats' from All for Hecuba: An Irish
Theatrical History by Micheal MacLiamm6ir. Published by Methuen &
Co. Ltd 1946.
Chatto & Wind us Ltd for the article 'W. B. Yeats' from Writers at Work by
Louise Morgan.
R. Dardis Clarke for the extract 'TheYe ats I Knew' by Austin Clarke from
The Yeats We Knew, ed. Francis MacManus, published by Mercier Press,
1965.
Edmund Dulac for 'Without the Twilight' from Scattering Branches, ed.
Stephen Gwynn.
Monk Gibbon for 'The Yeats I Knew' from The Yeats We Knew, ed. Francis
MacManus, published by Mercier Press, 1965.
Emmet M. Greene for the extract 'The Yeats I Knew' from Life and the
Dream by Mary M. Colum published by Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1964 and
Doubleday & Co. Inc., New York, 1947.
Guardian Newspapers Ltd for the extract from 'De Valera as Play Censor'
from the Manchester Guardian Weekfy, 13 Apr 1934.
Mrs F. R. Higgins for 'Yeats as Irish Poet' by F. R. Higgins from Scattering
Branches, ed. Stephen Gwynn.
David Higham Associates Ltd for 'W. B. Yeats: Chameleon of Genius' by
Clifford Bax from Some I Knew Well published by Phoenix House/J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd, and for the extract 'Yeats Smelt the Spirits' by Louis
MacNeice from The Strings are False, published by Faber and Faber Ltd.
The Hokuseido Press for 'An Interview with W. B. Yeats' by Shotaro
Oshima from W. B. Yeats and Japan, 1965.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
X
Irish Independent Newspapers Ltd for the extract 'Mr Yeats Explains
Play' from the Irish Independent, I3 Aug I938.
The Irish Press Ltd for the extracts 'W. B. Yeats Looks Back; Poet
Celebrates his Seventieth Birthday' from the Irish Press, I4June I935 and
'W. B. Yeats Looks Back; Ireland in the Early Days of Abbey Theatre'
from the Irish Press, I4 Oct I935·
The Irish Times for the extracts 'Reminiscences of "W. B." by E. R. Walsh
from the Irish Times, IO Feb I940 and 'May Craig Recalls the Abbey Days'
from the Irish Times, 10 June I965.
Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., New York, for the extract from Rose and
Crown (Autobiographies) by Sean O'Casey.
Ethel Mannin for the extract 'No Shore Beyond' from Privileged Spectator.
The .New York Times for the extract from Book Review, Speaking ofBooks:
'Visions of Yeats' by Walter Starkie, © I965 by the .New York Times.
Reprinted by permission.
A. D. Peters & Co. for extracts 'Quarrelling with Yeats: A Friendly
Recollection' by Frank O'Connor, published in Esquire, and 'Re
miniscences of Yeats' by Frank O'Connor from Leinster, Munster &
Connaught, published by Robert Hale Ltd, I950.
Lennox Robinson for 'The Man and the Dramatist' from Scattering
Branches, ed. Stephen Gwynn.
Marianne Helweg Rodgers for the extract from the script ofW. R. Rodgers
on 'W. B. Yeats', broadcast in June I949· Reprinted in Irish Literary
Portraits, BBC, I972.
William Rothenstein for 'Yeats as a Painter Saw Him' from Scattering
Branches, ed. Stephen Gwynn.
Saturday Review for the article 'Memories ofYeats' by Mary M. Colum from
the Saturday Review of Literature, XIX, 25 Feb I939·
Shenandoah, The Washington & Lee University Review, for 'Glimpses of
W. B. Yeats' by Austin Clarke from Shenandoah, XVI, No.4· Copyright I963
by Shenandoah. Reprinted by permission of the editor.
The Society of Authors as the literary representative of the Estate ofJ ames
Stephens for the extract 'W. B. Yeats' from James, Seumas & Jacques:
Unpublished Writings of James Stephens.
The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd for 'Meetings with Yeats' by
Hugh Kingsmill from the .New Statesman, 4Jan I94I, and 'Encounters with
Yeats' by V. S. Pritchett from the .New Statesman, 4June I965.
Francis Stuart for 'The Yeats I Knew' from The Yeats We Knew, ed. Francis
MacManus, published by Mercier Press, I965.
The Texas Q;Larter{y for the article 'Some Memories of W. B. Yeats' by
Brigit Patmore from the Texas Quarter{y, Vol. vm, Winter I965.
University College Dublin for 'W. B. Yeats-A Generation Later' by
Thomas MacGreevy, from the Universiry Review, III, No.8.
George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd and Harvard University Press Ltd for
'W. B. Yeats' from Memories IB¢-1939 by C. M. Bowra. Reprinted by