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Yeats's Legacies: Yeats Annual No. 21
- Warwick Gould (editor)
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| Title | Yeats's Legacies |
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| Subtitle | Yeats Annual No. 21 |
| Contributor | Warwick Gould (editor) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0135 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0135 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Warwick Gould. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors. |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Publication place | Cambridge, UK |
| Published on | 2018-03-22 |
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| ISBN | 978-1-78374-454-1 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-78374-455-8 (Hardback) | |
| 978-1-78374-456-5 (PDF) | |
| 978-1-80064-554-7 (HTML) | |
| 978-1-78374-457-2 (EPUB) | |
| 978-1-78374-458-9 (MOBI) | |
| Short abstract | 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. |
| Long abstract | 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. |
| Print length | 684 pages (lxxii + 612) |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 140 x 35 x 216 mm | 5.5" x 1.37" x 8.5" (Paperback) |
| 140 x 37 x 216 mm | 5.5" x 1.44" x 8.5" (Hardback) | |
| Weight | 1726g | 60.88oz (Paperback) |
| 2065g | 72.84oz (Hardback) | |
| Media | 43 illustrations |
| OCLC Number | 1257027425 |
| LCCN | 2019452616 |
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Contents
Introduction
(pp. xxxv–lxviii)- Warwick Gould
How Yeats Learned to Scan
(pp. 3–38)- Hannah Sullivan
EASTER 1916
(pp. 39–62)- Denis Donoghue
The Invisible Hypnotist: Myth and Spectre in Some Post-1916 Poems and Plays by W. B. Yeats
(pp. 63–122)- Anita Feldman
‘Satan Smut & Co’: Yeats and the Suppression of Evil Literature in the Early Years of the Free State
(pp. 123–212)- Warwick Gould
‘Uttering, Mastering it’? Yeats’s Tower, Lady Gregory’s Ballylee, and the Eviction of 1888
(pp. 213–268)- James Pethica
- Lauren Arrington
W. B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief
(pp. 295–316)- Catherine E. Paul
- Warwick Gould
Charles Williams and W. B. Yeats
(pp. 317–354)- Grevel Lindop
- Stanley van der Ziel
The Textual History of Yeats’s On the Boiler
(pp. 391–446)- William O’Donnell
Maud Gonne’s Fictional Affair: ‘A Life’s Sketch’
(pp. 449–478)- John Kelly
- Warwick Gould
‘Both Beautiful, One a Gazelle’: A Review Essay
(pp. 545–556)- Deirdre Toomey
W. B. Yeats, On Baile’s Strand: Manuscript Materials, ed. by Jared Curtis and Declan Kiely
(pp. 557–562)- Richard Allen Cave
W. David Soud, Divine Cartographies: God, History and Poeisis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot
(pp. 563–568)- Grevel Lindop
- R. A. Gilbert
- Jad Adams
- Emilie Morin
- Stoddard Martin
- Stoddard Martin
- Deirdre Toomey
Contributors
Warwick Gould
(editor)Emeritus Professor of English Literature at University of London