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Yeats's Mask: Yeats Annual No. 19

  • Margaret Mills Harper (editor)
  • Warwick Gould (editor)
Metadata
TitleYeats's Mask
SubtitleYeats Annual No. 19
ContributorMargaret Mills Harper (editor)
Warwick Gould (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0038
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0038
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
CopyrightMargaret Harper Mills; Warwick Gould, unless otherwise stated; Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Publication placeCambridge, UK
Published on2013-12-20
Series
  • Yeats Annual vol. 19
  • ISSN Print: 0278-7687
  • ISSN Digital: 2054-3611
ISBN978-1-78374-017-8 (Paperback)
978-1-78374-018-5 (Hardback)
978-1-78374-019-2 (PDF)
978-1-80064-465-6 (HTML)
978-1-78374-020-8 (EPUB)
978-1-78374-021-5 (MOBI)
Short abstractA special issue in this renowned research-level series, Yeats Annual 19 explores the concept of the Mask in Yeats’s plays and poems. The volume also includes studies of Yeats’s friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio broadcasts, and the Chinese contexts for his writing of ‘Lapis Lazuli’. As well as ten new reviews focusing on various volumes of the Cornell Yeats MSS series and his correspondence with George Yeats, this volume republishes the key occult epistolary exchange ‘Leo Africanus’, edited by Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper from the elusive Yeats Annual 1 (1982).
Long abstractYeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats’s plays and those poems written as ‘texts for exposition’ of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937), the volume also spotlights ‘The Mask before The Mask’ numerous plays including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King’s Threshold, Calvary, The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats’s friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio broadcasts, the Chinese contexts for his writing of ‘Lapis Lazuli’. His self-renewal after The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, and the key occult epistolary exchange ‘Leo Africanus’, edited from MSS by Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper, is republished from the elusive Yeats Annual No. 1 (1982). The essays are by David Bradshaw, Michael Cade-Stewart, Aisling Carlin, Warwick Gould, Margaret Mills Harper, Pierre Longuenesse, Jerusha McCormack, Neil Mann, Emilie Morin, Elizabeth Müller and Alexandra Poulain, with shorter notes by Philip Bishop and Colin Smythe considering Yeats’s quatrain upon remaking himself and the pirate editions of The Land of Heart’s Desire. Ten reviews focus on various volumes of the Cornell Yeats MSS Series, his correspondence with George Yeats, and numerous critical studies. Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London.
Print length496 pages (xlii + 454)
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Dimensions140 x 25 x 216 mm | 5.5" x 1" x 8.5" (Paperback)
140 x 27 x 216 mm | 5.5" x 1.06" x 8.5" (Hardback)
Weight1257g | 44.34oz (Paperback)
1586g | 55.94oz (Hardback)
Media25 illustrations
OCLC Number941419618
LCCN2019467815
BIC
  • DSC
BISAC
  • LIT004120
  • POE005020
LCC
  • PR5907
Keywords
  • William Butler Yeats
  • Yeats Annual
  • Warwick Gould
  • Margaret Mills Harper
  • Yeats's Mask
  • Institute of English Studies
  • Irish literature
  • Irish poetry
Contents
  • Warwick Gould
  • Margaret Mills Harper

The Mask of A Vision

(pp. 167–189)
  • Neil Mann
  • Tom Walker
  • Michael Cade-Stewart
Contributors

Margaret Mills Harper

(editor)
Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in Englis at University of Limerick

Warwick Gould

(editor)
Emeritus Professor of English Literature at University of London