Copyright

Neil Mann

Published On

2026-11-04

Language

  • English

Print Length

9 pages

THEMA

  • 5TD-IE-A
  • DS
  • JBGB
  • FBA
  • QRYX

BISAC

  • LIT004120
  • LIT000000
  • LIT004130
  • LIT024000

Keywords

  • W. B. Yeats
  • Irish folklore
  • Mythology
  • Esotericism / Occult
  • Literary criticism
  • Modernism

Preface to the Second Edition

  • Neil Mann (author)
Chapter of: W. B. Yeats: Mythologies

Neil Mann outlines the reception of the 2005 volume, Gould and Toomey's plans for republication, and aspects of revising their edition for Open Book Publishers.

Contributors

Neil Mann

(author)

Neil Mann has written extensively on W. B. Yeats, in particular on A Vision, his esoteric interests, and related areas. A survey of W. B. Yeats’s Rapallo Notebooks, co-authored with W. K. Chapman, was published as a special number of the journal of International Yeats Studies in 2025. His book A Reader’s Guide to Yeats’s ‘A Vision’ appeared in 2019, and he has co-edited collections of essays in Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult (2016) and W*. B. Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: Explications and Contexts* (2012). He has regularly contributed articles to the Yeats Annual and Warwick Gould was one of the thesis examiners for his D.Phil. at Oxford University.