Yeats's Legacies: Yeats Annual No. 21 - cover image

Journal

  • Yeats Annual vol. 21
  • ISSN Print: 0278-7687
  • ISSN Digital: 2054-3611

Copyright

Warwick Gould. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.

Published On

2018-03-22

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-454-1
Hardback978-1-78374-455-8
PDF978-1-78374-456-5
HTML978-1-80064-554-7
EPUB978-1-78374-457-2
MOBI978-1-78374-458-9

Language

  • English

Print Length

684 pages (lxxii + 612)

Dimensions

Paperback140 x 35 x 216 mm(5.5" x 1.37" x 8.5")
Hardback140 x 37 x 216 mm(5.5" x 1.44" x 8.5")

Weight

Paperback1726g (60.88oz)
Hardback2065g (72.84oz)

Media

Illustrations43

OCLC Number

1257027425

LCCN

2019452616

BIC

  • DSC

BISAC

  • LIT014000
  • LIT004120
  • POE005020

LCC

  • PR5906

Keywords

  • William Butler Yeats
  • Ireland
  • poetry
  • drama
  • Institute of English Studies

Yeats's Legacies

Yeats Annual No. 21

  • Warwick Gould (editor)
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.

Endorsements

Each and every "Yeats Annual” is, indeed, a must read, if not obtain for your library, for any person with an interest in the life, and work, of William Butler Yeats.

Declan J. Foley

author of The Only Art of Jack B. Yeats and editor of Yeats 150

Reviews

The admirable Yeats Annual... a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats.

Bernard O'Donoghue

The Times Literary Supplement (0307-661X),

Contents

Introduction

(pp. xxxv–lxviii)
  • Warwick Gould
  • Hannah Sullivan

EASTER 1916

(pp. 39–62)
  • Denis Donoghue
  • Catherine E. Paul
  • Warwick Gould
  • Grevel Lindop
  • William O’Donnell

Contributors

Warwick Gould

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