Yeats Annual

347 Pages·1988·32.858 MB·English

by  Warwick Gould (eds.)

YEATS ANNUAL NO. 6
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Frontispiece: W. B. Yeats Lithograph on card, 277 x 200 mm. The sketch was done by Ivan
Opffer in Copenhagen, in 1923, Vl!hen Yeats travelled to Stockholm for the
Nobel Prize ceremony. Private Collection, London.
YEATS ANNUAL No. 6
Edited by Warwick Gould
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Yeats Annual-No. 6
I. Yeats, W. B.-Periodicals
821 '.8 PR5907
ISBN 978-1-349-07950-6 ISBN 978-1-349-07948-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-07948-3
ISSN 0278-7687
Contents
List of Abbreviations Vll
Editorial Board IX
Notes on the Contributors X
List of Plates Xlll
Editor's Note XV
Acknowledgements xvn
ARTICLES
"Our Kathleen": Yeats's Collaboration with Lady Gregory in
the Writing of Cathleen ni Houlihan James Pethica 3
Yeats and Deirdre: from Story to Fable Virginia Rohan 32
Olivia Shakes pear: Letters to W. B. Yeats edited by john
Harwood 59
The Annotated Responsibilities: Errors in the Variorum Edition and
a New Reading of the Genesis ofTwo Poems, "On Those
That Hated 'The Playboy of the Western World', 1907" and
"The New Faces" Wayne K. Chapman 108
Yeats and Arthur Marion Wynne-Davies 134
Halfway to the Stars: W. B. Yeats in California,
1904 William}. Feeney 148
John Quinn's "An Evening in New York with W. B. Yeats"
edited by Richard Londraville 166
Mille neuf cent dix-neuf a translation by Yves Bonnifoy 186
"MASTERING WHAT IS MOST ABSTRACT": A
FORUM ON A VISION
"The Completed Symbol": Daimonic Existence and the Great
Wheel in A Vision (1937) Colin McDowell 193
SHORTER NOTES
A New Solomon and Sheba Poem Stephen Parrish 211
"Portrayed before his Eyes": an abandoned late
poem Warwick Gould 214
"Worst Part of Life": Yeats's Horoscopes for Olivia
Shakespear Deirdre Toomey 222
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Contents
VI
MSS in a Black Box: The Golden Dawn Papers of Dr William
Wynn Westcott R. A. Gilbert 227
A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats's Library: Notes
Supplementary Wayne K. Chapman 234
REVIEWS
Yeats in His Letters: a Review Essay on John Kelly (e d.) and
Eric Domville (assoc. ed.), The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats,
Volume I: 1865-1895 Phillip L. Marcus 249
Sandra F. Siegel (cd.), 'Purgatory': Manuscript Materials Including
the Author's Final Text by W. B. Yeats Richard Allen Cave 257
Peter Sacks, The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to
Yeats Roy]. Booth 262
Balachandra Raj an, The Form of the Urifznished, English Poetics from
Spenser to Pound Roy]. Booth 265
Joseph M. Hassett, Yeats and the Poetics of Hate and Steven
Putzel, Reconstructing Yeats: 'The Secret Rose' and 'The Wind
Among the Reeds' Barton R. Friedman 268
D. E. S. Maxwell, A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama
1891-1980 and William]. Feeney, Drama in Hardwicke Street: a
History of the Irish Theatre Company Richard Allen Cave 273
Calvary and The Resurrection at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin,
September 1986 Katharine Worth 278
C. K. Stead, Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist
Movement Hugh Witeml!Jier 282
Patricia Clements, Baudelaire and the English Tradition and Anca
Vlasopolos, The Symbolic Method of Coleridge, Baudelaire, and
Yeats Pamela Bicklt!)' 285
Marie Roberts, British Poets and Secret Societies R. A. Gilbert 290
Masaru Sekine, Ze-Ami and His Theories of Noh Drama Richard
Taylor 293
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND RESEARCH MATERIALS
A Recent Yeats Bibliography, 1985-86 Warwick Gould 297
Publications Received 318
List of Abbreviations
The works listed below are cited in the texts by abbreviation and page
number. Some individual essays use additional abbreviations, as
explained in the appropriate notes.
Au Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955).
AVA A Critical Edition of Yeats's A Vision (1925), (eds) George
Mills Harper and Walter Kelly Hood (London: Macmillan
1978).
AVB A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1962).
CL1 The Collected Letters ofW. B. Yeats, volume one 1865-95, (eds)
John Kelly and Eric Domville (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1985).
E&I Essays and Introductions (London and New York: Macmillan,
1961 ).
Ex Explorations, sel. Mrs W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan,
1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963).
L The Letters ofW. B. Yeats (ed.) Allan Wade (London: Rupert
Hart-Davis, 1954; New York: Macmillan, 1955).
LDW Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorotlry Welleslf!Y, intro.
Kathleen Raine (London and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1964).
LMR Ah, Sweet Dancer: W. B. Yeats Margot Ruddock, A Correspondence
(ed.) Roger McHugh (London and New York: Macmillan,
1970).
LNI Letters to the New Island (ed.) Horace Reynolds (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1934).
LRB The Correspondence of Robert Bridges and W. B. Yeats (ed.)
Richard J. Finneran (London: Macmillan, 1977; Toronto:
Macmillan of Canada, 1978).
LTSM W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901-1937
(ed.) Ursula Bridge (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul;
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953).
LTWBY Letters toW. B. Yeats (eds) Richard]. Finneran, George Mills
Harper and William M. Murphy (London: Macmillan, New
York: Columbia University Press, 1977).
Vll
Vlll List of Abbreviations
Mem Memoirs (ed.) Denis Donoghue (London: Macmillan, 1972;
New York: Macmillan, 1973).
Myth Mythologies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1959).
OBMV The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935. Chosen by W. B.
Yeats (Oxford: Clarendon, 1936).
SB The Speckled Bird, With Variant Versions ( ed.) William H.
O'Donnell (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976).
ss
The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats (ed.) Donald R. Pearce
(London: Faber & Faber, 1961).
UP1 Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, vol. 1 (ed.) John P. Frayne
(London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University
Press, 1970).
UP2 Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, vol. 2 (eds) John P. Frayne
and ColtonJohnson (London: Macmillan, 1975; New York:
Columbia University Press, 1976).
VP The Variorum Edition oft he Poems ofW. B. Yeats (eds) Peter Alit
and Russell K. Alspach (New York and London: Macmillan,
1957). (To be cited from the corrected third printing [1966]
or later printings.)
VPl The Variorum Edition oft he Plays ofW. B. Yeats (ed.) Russell K.
Alspach (London and New York: Macmillan, 1966). (To be
cited from the corrected second printing [ 1966] or later
printings.)
VSR The Secret Rose: Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition (eds)
Phillip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould & Michael J. Sidnell
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981).
Wade Allan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings ofW. B. Yeats, 3rd
edn, rev. Russell K. Alspach (London: Rupert Hart-Davis,
1968).
YA Yeats Annual (to be followed by number and date).
YAACTS Yeats: an Annual of Critical and Textual Studies (to be followed by
number and date).
YL Edward O'Shea, A Descriptive Catalog ofW. B. Yeats's Library
(New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985).
YO Yeats and The Occult (ed.) George Mills Harper (Toronto:
Macmillan of Canada, 1975; London: Macmillan, 1975).
YT Yeats and The Theatre (eds) Robert O'Driscoll and Lorna
Reynolds (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975; London:
Macmillan, 1975).