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YEATS ANNUAL No. 8 In the same series YEATS ANNUAL Nos I, 2 Edited by Richard J. Finneran YEATS ANNUAL Nos 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Edited by Warwick Gould THOMAS HARDY ANNUALS Nos I, 2, 3, 4 Edited by Norman Page O'CASEY ANNUALS Nos I, 2, 3, 4 Edited by Robert G. Lowery T. S. ELIOT ANNUAL No. I Edited by Shyamal Bagchee Further titles in preparation Series Standlna Order H you would like to receive future titles in this series as they are published, you can make use of our standing order facility. To place a standing order please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address and the name of the series. Please state with which title you wish to begin your standing order. (If you live outside the UK we may not have the rights for your area, in which case we will forward your order to the publisher concerned.) Standing Order Service, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG212XS, England. W. B. Yeats reading, Dublin, 24 January 1908. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, Private Collection, London. YEATS ANNUAL No.8 Edited by Warwick Gould M Editorial matter and selection© Warwick Gould 1991 Text© The Macmillan Press Ltd 1991 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1991 978-0-333-42112-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1991 Published by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Yeats annual. 1. Yeats, W. B.-Societies, periodicals, etc. 821'.8'19 PR5907 ISBN 978-1-349-08863-8 ISBN 978-1-349-08861-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-08861-4 ISBN 0278-7688 Contents List of Abbreviations Vlll Editorial Board X Notes on the Contributors Xl List of Plates XlV Editor's Note XV Acknowledgements xvn ARTICLES Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats HELEN VENDLER 3 Metrical Variation in Yeats's Verse RICHARD TAYLOR 21 Giving Birth to Oneself: Yeats's Late Sexuality TIM ARMSTRONG 39 The Miltonic Crux of "The Phases of the Moon" WAYNE K. CHAPMAN 59 Four Lectures by W. B. Yeats, 1902-4 Edited by RICHARD LONDRAVILLE 78 "The Poet and the Actress": An Unpublished Dialogue by W. B. Yeats Edited by DAVID R. CLARK 123 "The Irish National Theatre": An Uncollected Address by W. B. Yeats Edited by DAVID R. CLARK 144 "MASTERING WHAT IS MOST ABSTRACT": A FORUM ON A VISION A Vision: Ideas of God and Man NEIL MANN 157 v VI Contents SHORTER NOTES Ian Fletcher, 1920--1988 JOHN STOKES 179 Checklist of Portraits of W. B. Yeats WILLIAM H. O'DONNELL 184 Notes on the Yeats Library, 1904 and 1989 WAYNE K. CHAPMAN 199 "Seven Paters" One More Time WARWICK GOULD 203 Francis Stuart, W. B. Yeats and To-mo"ow F. C. MOLLOY 214 W. B. Yeats, W. J. Turner and Edmund Dulac: The Broadsides and Poetry Broadcasts WAYNE MCKENNA 225 Memories and Prophecies: A Prospectus for the Yeats Project at the Abbey Theatre JAMES W. FLANNERY 235 REVIEWS The Poems ofJohn Gray and Some Unpublished Poems ofJohn Gray, ed. Ian Fletcher MURRAY G. H. PITTOCK 245 The Hollow Man: Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound; James Langenbach, Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats and Modernism JOHN HARWOOD 249 Carmel Jordan, A Terrible Beauty: The Easter Rebellion and Yeats's "Great Tapestry"; David Young, Troubled Mi"or: A Study of Yeats's The Tower; Richard J. Finneran (ed.), Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, No. 5; Keith M. May, Nietzsche and Modem Literature: Themes in Yeats, Rilke, Mann and Lawrence; Patrick]. Keane, Yeats's Interactions with Tradition STAN SMITH 258 Lady Gregory, The Journals, vol. II, ed. Daniel]. Murphy JAMES PETHICA 265 Contents vu David G. Wright, Yeats's Myth of Self: A Study of the Autobiographical Prose; Robert Welch and Suheil B. Bushrui ( eds), Literature and the Art of Creation: Essays and Poems in Honour of A. Normanje.ffares TIM ARMSTRONG 270 Paul Scott Stanfield, Yeats and Politics in the 1930s KIERAN QUINLAN 272 Thomas Parkinson, Poems, Poets, Movements; Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok (eds), Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World RICHARD TAYLOR 275 Vive Le Roi: Robert Ackerman,]. G. Frazer: His Life and Work ROBERT FRASER 279 Michael J. Sidnell, Dances of Death: The Group Theatre of London in the Thirties ROBERTJ.GORDON 284 Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu ROSALIND CLARK 288 Imre Salusinszky, Criticism in Sociery; M. H. Abrams, The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism CHARLOTTESTOUDT 294 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS Publications Received 305 Recent and Forthcoming Publications 307 List of Abbreviations The works listed below are cited in the texts by abbreviation and page number. Some individual essays use additional abbreviations, as explained in the appropriate notes. Au Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955). AVA A Critical Edition of Yeats's A Vision ( 1925), ed. George Mills Harper and Walter Kelly Hood (London: Macmillan, 1978). AVB A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1962). CL1 The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, vol. I: 1865-95, ed. John Kelly and Eric Domville (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986). E&1 Essays and Introductions (London and New York: Macmillan, 1961 ). Ex Explorations, sel. Mrs W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963). L The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. Allan Wade (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954; New York: Macmillan, 1955). LDW Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Welleslry, intro. Kathleen Raine (London and New York: Oxford Univer sity Press, 1964). LMR "Ah, Sweet Dancer": W. B. Yeats/Margot Ruddock, a Correspon dence, ed. Roger McHugh (London and New York: Mac millan, 1970). LNI Letters to the New Island, ed. Horace Reynolds (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1934). LRB The Correspondence of Robert Bridges and W. B. Yeats, ed. Richard J. Finneran (London: Macmillan, 1977; Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978). LTSM W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901- 1937, ed. Ursula Bridge (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Oxford University Press, 1953). LTWBY Letters to W. B. Yeats, ed. Richard J. Finneran, George Mills Harper and William M. Murphy (London: Macmillan; Vlll List of Abbreviations lX New York: Columbia University Press, 1977). Mem Memoirs, ed. Denis Donoghue (London: Macmillan, 1972; New York: Macmillan, 1973). Myth Mythologies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1959). OBMV The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935, chosen by W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936). SB The Speckled Bird, With Variant Versions, ed. William H. O'Donnell (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976). ss The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats, ed. Donald R. Pearce (London: Faber and Faber, 1961). UP1 Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, vol. 1, ed. John P. Frayne (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1970). UP2 Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, vol. 2, ed. John P. Frayne and Colton Johnson (London: Macmillan, 197 5; New York: Columbia University Press, 1976). VP The Variorum Edition of the Poems ofW. B. Yeats, ed. Peter Alit and Russell K. Alspach (New York and London: Macmil lan, 1957). (To be cited from the corrected third printing [1966] or later printings). VPl The Variorum Edition of the Plays ofW. B. Yeats, ed. Russell K. Alspach (London and New York: Macmillan, 1966). (To be cited from the corrected second printing [1966] or later printings.) VSR The Secret Rose: Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, ed. Phillip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould and Michael J. Sidnell (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981). Wade Allan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats, 3rd edn, rev. Russell K. Alspach (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968). YA Yeats Annual (to be followed by number and date). YAACTS Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies (to be followed by number and date). YL Edward O'Shea, A Descriptive Catalog ofW. B. Yeats's Library (New York and London: Garland, 1985). YO Yeats and the Occult, ed. George Mills Harper (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975; London: Macmillan, 1975). YT Yeats and the Theatre, ed. Robert O'Driscoll and Lorna Rey nolds (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975; London: Macmillan, 1975). Editorial Board Seamus Deane Yukio Oura Denis Donoghue Marjorie Perloff t Ian Fletcher Kathleen Raine Jacqueline Genet Ronald Schuchard A. Norman J effares Michael J. Sidnell K. P. S. Jochum Colin Smythe John S. Kelly C. K. Stead Phillip L. Marcus Katharine Worth William H. O'Donnell Research Editor: Deirdre Toomey X Notes on the Contributors Tim Armstrong is Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield, having previously lectured at University College, Cork. He was Quain Student at University College, London, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on Hardy, Yeats and Stevens. Wayne K. Chapman has taught in the English Department at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of Yeats and English Renaissance Poetry (Macmillan, 1990) . David R. Clark is Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of many studies of Yeats, including Yeats at Songs and Choruses (1983).