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YEATS and WOMEN in the Same Series YEATS AND WOMEN In the same series YEATS ANNUALS Nos 1, 2 Edited by Richard J. Finneran YEATS ANNUALS Nos 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Edited by Warwick Gould Maud Gonne, c. 1900. YEATS AND WOMEN Edited by Deirdre Toomey Yeats Annual No.9 A Special Number Series Editor: Warwick Gould M © Deirdre Toomey 1992 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1992 978-0-333-53647-6 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 WCIE 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 1992 by MACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-11930-1 ISBN 978-1-349-11928-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-11928-8 ISSN 0278-7688 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Contents List of Abbreviations ix Editorial Board Xl Notes on the Contributors Xll List of Plates XVl Editor's Introduction XlX Acknowledgements XXll ARTICLES AND TRANSLATION 3 "Secret Communion": Yeats's Sexual Destiny JOHN HARWOOD 3 At the Feet of the Goddess: Yeats's Love Poetry and the Feminist Occult ELIZABETH BUTLER CULLINGFORD 31 Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory and the Economy of Indebtedness JAMES PETHICA 60 Labyrinths: Yeats and Maud Gonne DEIRDRE TOOMEY 95 "The Music of Heaven": Dorothea Hunter WARWICK GOULD 132 The Eugenics Movement in the 1930s and the Emergence of On the Boiler DAVID BRADSHAW 189 Florence Farr: Letters toW. B. Yeats, 1912-17 Edited by JOSEPHINE JOHNSON 216 v VI Contents "Le Don d'Haroun Al-Rachid" Translated by JEAN-YVES MASSON 255 SHORTER NOTES 261 Georges Gonne and the Soul of the King of Ireland CONRAD A. BALLIET 263 Maud Gonne: Some Impressions A. NORMAN JEFFARES 266 George Yeats, The Countess Cathleen and P. S. O'Hegarty: Notes from the Libraries WAYNE K. CHAPMAN 271 Books by W. B. Yeats in Olivia Shakespear's Library WARWICK GOULD 295 "What is the explanation of it all?": Nothing and Something DEIRDRE TOOMEY 309 "Images": Unpublished Tableaux of Opposition NEIL MANN 313 REVIEWS 321 Lives 323 A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: A New Biography HELEN VENDLER 323 John Harwood, Olivia Shakespear and W. B. Yeats: After Long Silence MARJORIE PERLOFF 329 Margaret Ward, Maud Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc Margery Brady, The Love Story of Yeats and Maud Gonne DEIRDRE TOOMEY 336 Diana Souhami, Gluck 1895-1978: Her Biography WARWICK GOULD 342 Wayne McKenna, W. J. Turner, Poet and Music Critic A. NORMAN JEFFARES 348 Contents vn Editions and Manuscripts 351 The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats: Vol. VI Prifaces and Introductions, edited by William H. O'Donnell; Vol. VII Letters to the New Island: A New Edition, edited by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer A. NORMAN JEFFARES 351 Yeats Deregulated: Hazard Adams, The Book of Yeats's Poems; The Poems, edited by Daniel Albright; The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats: Vol. I The Poems Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran; The Collected Poems: A New Edition, edited by Richard]. Finneran; Richard J. Finneran, Editing Yeats's Poems: A Reconsideration; Collected Poems, edited by Augustine Martin WARWICK GOULD 356 Yeats's Poems, edited and annotated by A. Norman Jeffares, with an appendix by Warwick Gould WILLIAM H. O'DONNELL 373 A Vision and Related Writings, selected and edited by A. Norman Jeffares COLIN McDOWELL 377 The Love Poems, edited with an introduction and notes by A. Norman Jeffares ELIZABETH BUTLER CULLINGFORD 380 The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus: Manuscripts of W. B. Yeats, transcribed, edited and with a commentary by David R. Clark and James B. McGuire RICHARD ALLEN CAVE 382 Conrad A. Balliet, assisted by Christine Mawhinney, W. B. Yeats: A Census of the Manuscripts WAYNE K. CHAPMAN 390 Vlll Contents Studies, Collections and Productions 397 The Poet at the Roulette Table: A. Norman Jeffares (ed.), Yeats the European JOHN HARWOOD 397 Frank Kinahan, Yeats, Folklore and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought KIERAN QUINLAN 400 Jacqueline Genet, La Poitique de William Butler Yeats ADOLPHE HABERER 403 Jacqueline Genet (ed.), Studies on W. B. Yeats WAYNE K. CHAPMAN 405 Seamus Heaney, The Place of Writing JOHN HARWOOD 408 Here Comes Everybody: Susan Dick, Declan Kiberd, Dougald McMillan and Joseph Ronsley (eds), Omnium Gatherum: Essays for Richard Ellmann ANDREW GIBSON 410 James Richardson, Vanishing Lives: Style and Self in Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats PAMELA BICKLEY 413 Loreto Todd, The Language of Irish Literature KATIE WALES 416 Michael Allen and Angela Wilcox ( eds), Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature MARIA KURDI 420 Karl Beckson, Ian Fletcher, Lawrence W. Markert and John Stokes, Arthur Symons: A Bibliography BRUCE MORRIS 424 Karl Beckson and John M. Munro (eds), Arthur Symons: Selected Letters, 1880-1935 DEIRDRE TOOMEY 428 Yeats's Cuchulain Cycle at the Abbey Theatre, September 1989 RICHARD ALLEN CAVE 430 PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 439 List of Abbreviations The works listed below are cited in the texts by abbreviation and page number. Some individual essays use additional abbreviations, as ex­ plained 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). CLI The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, vol. 1: 1865-95, ed. John Kelly and Eric Domville (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986). E&I 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 Wellesley, intra. 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 toW. B. Yeats, ed. Richard]. Finneran, George Mills ix X List of Abbreviations Harper and William M. Murphy (London: Macmillan; 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 Modem 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 ColtonJohnson (London: Macmillan, 1975; 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; 2nd edn Lon­ don: Macmillan, 1991). References are to the 1st edn unless otherwise specified. Wade Allan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings ojW. 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 Reynolds (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975; London: Macmillan, 1975). Editorial Board Seamus Deane William H. O'Donnell Denis Donoghue Yukio Oura Jacqueline Genet Marjorie Perloff John Harwood Kathleen Raine A. Norman Jeffares Ronald Schuchard K. P. S. Jochum Michael J. Sid nell JohnS. Kelly Colin Smythe Edna Longley C. K. Stead Phillip L. Marcus Katharine Worth Editor: Warwick Gould Research Editor: Deirdre Toomey XI Notes on the Contributors Conrad A. Balliet is Professor of English at Wittenberg University, Ohio. His W. B. Yeats: A Census of the Manuscripts is reviewed in this volume. Pamela Bickley teaches at W. B. Yeats's old school, now the Godol­ phin and Latymer School, Hammersmith, and in the English Depart­ ment, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, where she is completing a doctoral thesis on D.
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