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This is the first collection of essays to address the coming subject in studies of the Irish Literary Revival and the Modernist Movement - Yeats's poetic, theatrical and occult collaborations. His creative dealings with such figures as Dolmetsch, Florence Farr, Lady Gregory, George Yeats, and Frank O'Connor, set his individual genius into the creative community which he himself built. With research materials, shorter notes, and reviews of 20 books, exhibitions and performances, and 10 plates including unknown images of Yeats, Anne Yeats, Mrs Patrick Campbell and others.
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List of Plates Abbreviations Editorial Board Notes on the Contributors Editors' Introduction Acknowledgements YEATS'S COLLABORATIONS Claiming Raftery's Curse: Yeats, Hyde, Lady Gregory and the Writing of The Marriage ; J. Pethica The Countess Cathleen and the Chanting of Verse, 1892-1912; R. Schuchard Ghosts in the Machine: Yeats and the Metallic Homunculus, with Transcripts of Reports by W.B.Yeats and Edmund Dulac; Edited by C. Blake Celestial Bodies: Sexual Cosmologies in a Collaborative Vision ; M.M. Harper W.B. and George Yeats: The Writing, Editing, and dating of Yeats's Poems of the Mid 1920s and 1930s, with a Chronology of the Composition of the Poems; W.K.Chapman Resurrecting Calvary : A Reconstructive Interpretation of the Play and its Making; Janis Haswell Putting Words into a Rambling Oeasant Poet's Mouth: Frank O'Connor and W.B.Yeats's translations 'from the Irish'; L. O'Connor VALE ANNE YEATS 1919-2001 Anne Butler Yeats 9 May 1919-4 July 2001: Funeral Oration; A. Saddlemyer Jack Butler Yeats: Some Memories; A. Yeats RESEARCH MATERIALS AND SHORTER NOTES Francis Fahy's 'Ireland in London-Reminiscences' (1921); edited by C. Hutton Yeats and the Goethe-Plakette : An Unpublished Letter and its Context; K.P.S.Jochum Authors in Eternity: Some Sources of Yeats's Creative Mysticism; W.K.Chapman Yeats, Kant and Giovanni Gentile: the Single Gyre of Time and Space; M. Gibson REVIEWS David Pierce (ed.) W.B.Yeats: Critical Assessments ; K.P.S.Jochum 'Labouring and Belabouring': David Holdeman, Much Labouring: The Texts and Authors of Yeats's First Modernist Books ; Warwick Gould Sam MacCready, A William Butler Yeats Encylopaedia ; A.N. Jeffares Bruce Arnold, Jack Yeats ; A.Norman Jeffares Matthew Gibson, Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage ; C. McDowell The Cuchulain Cycle directed by Michael Scott at the Riverside Studios, April, 1998; R.A. Cave 'Days of Wine and Halitosis': Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent ; J.Harwood 'Oscar Wilde 2000': Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (eds.), The Collected Letters of Oscar Wilde; Oscar Wilde: a Life in Six Acts (Exhibition at the British library 10 November 2000-4 February 2001 curated by Sally Brown and Merlin Holland); Tomoko Sato and Lionel Lambourne (eds.), The Wilde Years ; Charlotte Gere and Lesley Hoskins, The House Beautiful: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Interior ; D. Toomey A Note on David Colvin and Edward Maggs, Enoch Soames; The Critical Heritage Philip R.Bishop, Thomas Bird Mosher-Pirate Prince of Publishers: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Source Guide ; Paul Goldman and Brian Taylor (eds.), Retrospective Adventures: Forrest Reid: Author and Collector ; John R.Turner, The Walter Scott Publishing Company: A Bibliography ; W. Gould Guy St John Williams (ed.), The Renvyle Letters: Gogarty Family Correspondence, 1939-1957 ; A.N. Jeffares 'T.S.Eliot's Romantic Agony': A Review Essay on Ronald Schuchard's Eliot's Dark Angel ; J. Harding Publications Received
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CHRISTOPHER BLAKE Reference and Instruction Librarian, Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk
RICHARD ALLEN CAVE Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
MATTHEW GIBSON Assistant Professor of English, American University of Bulgaria
JASON HARDING Assistant Director, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
MARGARET MILLS HARPER Professor of English, Georgia State University
JOHN HARWOOD Emeritus Reader in English Literature, Flinders University of South Australia
JANIS HASWELL Associate Professor of English in the College of Arts and Humanities, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi
CLARE HUTTON Arts and Humanities Research Board Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London
A.NORMAN JEFFARES Honorary Life President of IASAIL
K.P.S.JOCHUM Emeritus Professor of English, Universitat Bamberg, Germany
COLIN McDOWELL Public Servant in the Australian Bureau of Statistics
LAURA O'CONNOR Associate Professor of English, University of California, Irvine
JAMES PETHICA Teaches at Williams College, Massachusetts
ANN SADDLEMYER Emeritus Professor of English and Drama, University of Toronto
RONALD SCHUCHARD Goodrich C.White Professor of English, Emory University
DEIDRE TOOMEY Editor of Yeats and Women: Yeats Annual No 9
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This is the first collection of essays to address the coming subject in studies of the Irish Literary Revival and the Modernist Movement - Yeats's poetic, theatrical and occult collaborations. His creative dealings with such figures as Dolmetsch, Florence Farr, Lady Gregory, George Yeats, and Frank O'Connor, set his individual genius into the creative community which he himself built. With research materials, shorter notes, and reviews of 20 books, exhibitions and performances, and 10 plates including unknown images of Yeats, Anne Yeats, Mrs Patrick Campbell and others.
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'The admirable Yeats Annual...a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats - Bernard O'Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement
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'The admirable Yeats Annual...a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats - Bernard O'Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement
