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The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats THE COLLECTED EDITION OF THE WORKS OF W. B. YEATS General Editors,' Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper AUTOBIOGRAPHIES edited by Douglas Archibald, J. Fraser Cocks, III and Gretchen L. Schwenker THE CELTIC TWILIGHT AND THE SECRET ROSE edited by Warwick Gould, Phillip L. Marcus and Michael Sidnell EARLY ARTICLES AND REVIEWS edited by John P. Frayne EARL Y ESSAYS edited by Warwick Gould THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT edited by Mary FitzGerald JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA edited by Richard J. Finneran LATER ARTICLES AND REVIEWS edited by Colton Johnson LATER ESSAYS edited by William H. O'Donnell and Elizabeth Bergman Loizeaux LETTERS TO THE NEW ISLAND edited by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer THE PLAYS edited by David R. Clark THE POEMS: A NEW EDITION edited by Richard J. Finneran PREFACES AND INTRODUCTIONS edited by William H. O'Donnell A VISION (1925) edited by Connie Hood and Walter K. Hood A VISION (1937) edited by Connie Hood and Walter K. Hood Serles Staadinl Order If 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 Prefaces and Introductions Uncollected Prefaces and Introductions by Yeats to Works by other Authors and to Anthologies Edited by Yeats EDITED BY William H. O'Donnell Palgrave macmillan © Micheal Yeats 1988 Editorial matter ©William H. O'Donnell 1988 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1988 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, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WH 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. MacmillanC!> is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-06238-6 ISBN 978-1-349-06236-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-06236-2 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. CONTENTS EDITOR'S PREFACE x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XVlll LIST OF PLATES XXI PREFACES AND INTRODUCTIONS Introduction and headnotes to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. W. B. Yeats (1888) 3 'William Carleton', in Storiesfrom Carleton, ed. W. B. Yeats (1889) 23 Introduction and headnotes (1890) to Representative Irish Tales, ed. W. B. Yeats (1891) 29 Introduction ('An Irish Story-teller'), acknowledgement note, 'The Classification of Irish Fairies', and 'Authorities on Irish Folklore' (1891), in Irish Fairy Tales, ed. W. B. Yeats (1892) 58 'William Allingham 1824-1889' (1891), in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892) 68 'Ellen O'Leary 1831-1889' (1891), in The Poets and the Poetry ojthe Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892) 71 Preface (c. 1892) to The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, ed. Edwin]. Ellis and W. B. Yeats, 3 vols (1893) 74 v vi Contents Introduction to Poems of William Blake, ed. W. B. Yeats (1893, rev. 1905) 79 'Modern Irish Poetry' (1894; rev. 1899, c. 1903, 1908), repro from A Book ofIrish Verse Selectedfrom Modem Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats (1895, rev. 1900) 102 'Lionel Johnson' (1898; rev. 1900, 1908), repro from A Treasury ofIrish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900) 111 'AE' (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900) 113 'Nora Hopper' (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900) 116 'Althea Gyles', in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900) 118 'Thoughts on Lady Gregory's Translations': Prefaces (1902, 1903; rev. 1905, 1908, 1912), repro from Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) and Gods and Fighting Men (1904) 119 Preface to The Love Songs of Connacht: Being the Fourth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht, collected and tr. Douglas Hyde (1904) 135 Preface to Lionel Johnson, 'Poetry and Patriotism', in Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and LionelJohnson (1908) 136 Preface to John M. Synge, Deirdre of the Sorrows: A Play (1910) 137 Introduction to Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912) 138 Contents vii Preface to Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office, tr. Devabrata Mukerjea (1914) 144 Preface (1921) toJohn M. Synge, Shingu Gikyoku Zenshu ('Collected Plays of Synge'), tr. Mineko Matsumura (1923) 145 Introduction to Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales (1923) 147 Preface to John Butler Yeats, Early Memories: Some Chapters of Autobiography (1923) 152 Preface (1923) to Oliver Stjohn Gogarty, An Offering of Swans and Other Poems (1924) 154 Preface (1924) toJean Marie Matthias Philippe Auguste Count de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Axel, tr. H. P. R. Finberg (1925) 156 Introduction to The Midnight Court, from Brian Merriman and Donagh Rua Macnamara, The Midnight Court and The Adventures ofa Luckless Fellow, tr. Percy Arland Ussher (1926) 159 Prefatory letter to the Medici Society, in William Blake, Songs of Innocence, illus.Jacynth Parsons (1927) 164 Introduction to The Coinage of Saorstat Eireann (1928) 166 Preface (1929) to Oliver St John Gogarty, Wild Apples (1930) 172 'Anglo-Irish Ballads', by F. R. Higgins and W. B. Yeats, in Broadsides: A Collection of Old and New Songs (1935) 175 Introduction (1935) to Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley (1936) 182 Introduction (1936) to Margot Ruddock, The Lemon Tree (1937) 186 viii Contents 'Music and Poetry', by W. B. Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley, in Broadsides: A Collection of New Irish and English Songs (1937) 191 APPENDIXES Notes by Yeats (and/or Douglas Hyde) to items other than Yeats's introductions and headnotes, in Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. W. B. Yeats (1888) 194 2 Notes by Yeats to items other than his introduction and headnotes, in Representative Irish Tales, ed. W. B. Yeats (1891) 200 3 Notes by Yeats (or of un traced origin) to items other than his introduction, in Irish Fairy Tales, ed. W. B. Yeats (1892) 201 4 Acknowledgements, in Poems of William Blake, ed. W. B. Yeats, 2nd edn (1905) 202 5 Notes, in Poems oj William Blake, ed. W. B. Yeats, 2nd edn (1905) 202 6 First edition version of a passage on contemporary Irish poets, in Introduction (1894), A Book of Irish Verse Selected from Modern Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats (1895) 216 7 Notes, A Book of Irish Verse Selectedfrom Modern Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats (1895) 217 8 Preface (1899) to A Book of Irish Verse Selected from Modern Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats, 2nd edn (1900) 223 9 Excerpt from acknowledgements, in A Book of Irish Verse Selectedfrom Modern Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats, 2nd edn (1900) 224 Contents ix 10 Sections I and II of 'Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne', in Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays, vol. VIII of The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (1908) 224 11 Endnote, titled 'Note by W. B. Yeats on the Conversation ofCuchulain and Emer (Page 23)', to page 23 ('The Courting of Emer: Cuchu1ain's Riddles'), in Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) 226 12 Section VIII of 'What We Did or Tried to Do', In Coinage of Saorstdt Eireann (1928) 227 13 Prefatory paragraph to the introduction to Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley (1936) 228 14 Anonymous headnote to the introduction to Dorothy Wellesley, The Poets and Other Poems (1943) 228 15 Letter from Yeats to In-sob Jung [Zong], in An Anthology of Modern Poems in Korea: (100 Poets and 100 Poems), ed. and tr. In[-]sob Zong (1948) 228 NOTES 229 TEXTUAL INTRODUCTIONS 317 COPY-TEXTS USED FOR THIS EDITION 338 EMENDATIONS TO THE COPY-TEXTS 343 INDEX 356 EDITOR'S PREFACE The prefaces and introductions that Yeats wrote for works by other writers and for anthologies that he edited have special interest because they reflect a broad range of his literary and cultural interests during nearly the full length of his career. Other volumes in The Collected Edition of the Works ofW. B. Yeats give the prefaces and introductions that Yeats chose finally to include in collections of his essays; Prefaces and Introductions makes available the other thirty-two prefaces and introductions that were published in separate books.
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