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For Eamonn and Anne Cantwell, benefactors of University College, Cork, and who both care for ‘what old books tell’. Contents List of Illustrations xiii Abbreviations xix Editorial Board xxvii Notes on Contributors xxix Introduction xxxv Acknowledgements and Editorial Information xliii ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF EAMONN CANTWELL Yeats and his Books WARWICK GOULD 3 ‘Philosophy and Passion’: W. B. Yeats, Ireland and Europe R. F. FOSTER 71 Yeats the Love Poet BERNARD O’DONOGHUE 97 The Puzzle of Sequence: Two Political Poems HELEN VENDLER 119 Moving on Silence: Yeats and the Refrain as Symbol PAUL MULDOON 155 Eliot and Yeats JOHN KELLY 179 The Cantwell Collection CRÓNÁN Ó DOIBHLIN 229 RESEARCH UPDATES AND OBITUARIES W. B. Yeats’s Mosada COLIN SMYTHE 239 Yeats and the Flying Dutchman WARWICK GOULD 263 Yeats and Tukaram: ‘An Asylum for my Affections’ GEERT LERNOUT 287 ‘I am sitting in a café with two French-Americans’: W. B. Yeats, Max Dauthendey, James and Theodosia Durand. Durand’s ‘Communistic Manifesto’ GÜNTHER SCHMIGALLE 293 Three Letters from Yeats to the Anarchist, Augustin Hamon DEIRDRE TOOMEY 335 Ghost-writing for Sara Allgood JOHN KELLY 343 Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014) NICOLAS BARKER 375 Katharine Worth (1922–2015) RICHARD ALLEN CAVE 379 ‘MASTERING WHAT IS MOST ABSTRACT’: A FORUM ON A VISION A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition, edited by Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine E. Paul, The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. XIV. A Review Essay COLIN MCDOWELL 387 An Afterword: The Macmillan Archive and Editorial Policy WARWICK GOULD 417 God-appointed Berkeley and W. J. Mc Cormack’s ‘We Irish’ in Europe: Yeats, Berkeley and Joseph Hone. A Review Essay COLIN MCDOWELL 423 Winifred Dawson, The Porter’s Daughter: The Life of Amy Audrey Locke JAD ADAMS 445 Brian Arkins, The Thought of W. B. Yeats; J. P. Mahaffy, Rambles & Studies in Greece, with an Introduction and Commentary by Brian Arkins MICHAEL EDWARDS 451 Olivia Shakespear, Beauty’s Hour, edited by Anne Margaret Daniel DEIRDRE TOOMEY 455 Publications Received 459 List of Illustrations Note: All enquiries regarding copyrights in individual plates should be made c/o the editor at [email protected]. Cover Images: The Yeats Annual fleuron on the spine is based upon Thomas Sturge Moore’s rose design, as used in his illustrations for H. P. R. Finberg’s translation of Count Villiers de L’Isle Adam’s Axel with Yeats’s preface (London: Jarrolds Publishers, Ltd., 1925), and elsewhere on cover designs for Yeats’s books, most notably that for Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918), courtesy of the late Riette Sturge Moore. The heraldic device is taken from Althea Gyles’s top board design for the revised and enlarged The Celtic Twilight (London: A. H. Bullen, English edition only, 1902; Wade 35), her last cover design for Yeats. Frontispiece: W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot in the United States, December 1932. © private collection, London, All rights reserved. Plates 1. W. T. Horton’s Caricature of Yeats among his books and 9 William Blake’s alchemical equipment and astrological grimoires, from The Academy, 59:1418 (8 July, 1899) 28. Private collection, London. 2a, b. Top boards of Speeches from the Dock, 48th edition and alternative 13 cover emblem, showing Shamrocks, Harp, Shield with Red Hand of Ulster, and Spear, from the 53rd edition. Private collection, London. 3. Spirit of the Nation, 50th edition, 1876. Private collection, 13 London. 4. Review copy of Mosada: A Dramatic Poem (1886) with 16 bookplates, including those of John Quinn (centre, by Jack B. Yeats), Major William van R. Whitall (top), and Milton McC. Gatch (bottom), Courtesy of Maggs Bros., London. 5. A detail of Yeats’s inscription on the frontispiece page of Quinn’s 17 copy of Mosada. Courtesy of Maggs Bros., London. xiii xiv List of Illustrations 6. J. B. Yeats’s frontispiece drawing of W. B. Yeats, from Mosada 19 (1886). Courtesy Colin Smythe. 7a. J. B. Yeats’s pastel portrait of W. B. Yeats as King Goll. Private 19 collection, Ireland. Courtesy Colin Smythe. 7b. J. B. Yeats’s portrait of W. B. Yeats as King Goll, The Leisure 19 Hour, September 1887. Private collection, London. 8a, b. Inscriptions by W. B. Yeats [n.d.] and George Yeats (March, 25 1949) in Yeats’s working copy of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889). © and courtesy of The Morgan Library, New York, PML 134657. Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987. 8c. W. B. Yeats’s inscription of March 1904 in John Quinn’s copy of 27 The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889), now Copy 4 in the Berg Collection, New York Public Library. © the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, and the Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, New York Public Library. All rights reserved. 9. Edwin J. Ellis’s Frontispiece of Niam [sic], St Patrick and Oisin, 28 in The Wanderings of Oisin. Dramatic Sketches, Ballads & Lyrics (1892). © private collection, London. All rights reserved. 10. Top board of wraparound covers by H. Granville Fell for W. B. 32 Yeats’s Poems (1895). Private collection, London. 11. Althea Gyles’s wraparound design for The Secret Rose (1897), 35 first state, ribbed cloth. Private collection, London. 12a. Decorated Initial Letter from the Sacramentary Fleury, early 35 eleventh century, attributed to Nivardus of Milan, MS.