YEATS ANNUAL NO. 5 In the same series YEATS ANNUAL Nos I, 2 Edited by Richard J. Finneran YEATS ANNUAL Nos, 3, 4 Edited by Warwick Gould THOMAS HARDY ANNUALS Nos I, 2, 3, 4, 5 Edited by Norman Page O'CASEY ANNUALS Nos I, 2, 3, 4 Edited by Robert G. Lowery Further titles in preparation Series Standlna 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 in his study in Woburn Buildings, reproduced from The Tatter, 15 7, 29 June 1904 (see Editor's Note, p. xviii). YEATS ANNUAL No. 5 Edited by Warwick Gould ©Warwick Gould 1987 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1987 978-0-333-35333-2 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 Totten ham Court Road, London WlP 9HE. 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 1987 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-06843-2 ISBN 978-1-349-06841-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-06841-8 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Reprinted 1993 Contents List of Abbreviations Vlll Editorial Board X Notes on the Contributors Xl List of Plates XV Editor's Note xvu Acknowledgements XX ARTICLES Yeats's "Last Poems": a Reconsideration Phillip L. Marcus 3 Porphyry's Cup: Yeats, Forgetfulness and the Narrative Order Stan Smith 15 Arthur Symons's Letters toW. B. Yeats: 1892-1902 Bruce ~~ % Yeats, Wordsworth and the Communal Sense: the Case of"lf I were Four-and-Twenty" Michael Baron 62 The Writing and Performance of The Hour-Glass C. L. Phillips 83 At the Hawk's Well and Taka No humi in a "Creative Circle" Okifumi Komesu 103 "Laying the Ghosts"?- W. B. Ycats's Lecture on Ghosts and Dreams Peter Kuch 114 MEMORIES OF GEORGE YEATS AND W. B. YEATS Vignettes Grace M. Jajje 139 Yeats and Gogarty H. Montgomery Hyde 154 SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH COLLECTIONS Magical Manuscripts: an Introduction to the Archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn R. A. Gilbert 163 YEATS AND BROADCASTING W. B. Yeats and the BBC: a Reassessment Jeremy Silver 181 Yeats Material in the Radio Telefis Eireann Archives Jeremy Silver 186 v VI Contents George Barnes's "W. B. Yeats and Broadcasting", 1940, with an Introductory Note by Jeremy Silver 189 W. B. Yeats's Unpublished Talk on His Version of King Oedipus Broadcast from the BBC Belfast Studio on 8 September 1931, with an Introductory Note by Karen Dorn 195 SHORTER NOTES Bards of the Gael and Gall: an Uncollected Review by Yeats in The Illustrated London News Deirdre Toomey 203 "What is the explanation of it all?": Yeats's "little poem about nothing" Warwick Gould 212 "The Binding of the Hair" and Yeats's Reading of Eugene O'Curry Genevieve Brennan 214 The Morals of Deirdre Vivian Mercier 224 "The Crazed Moon" and the Myth of Dionysus Joseph M. Hassett 232 The "myth [in) ... reply to a myth"- Yeats, Balzac, and Joachim of Fiore Warwick Gould 238 Regarding the Yeats Society ofjapan Yukio Dura 252 REVIEWS Mary Lou Kohfeldt, Lady Gregory: the Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance james Pethica 257 Joseph Adams, Yeats and the Masks of Syntax Kathleen Wales 260 Okifumi Komesu, The Double Perspective of Yeats's Aesthetic Edward Engelberg 26 7 Seamus Deane, Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature and Mary C. King, The Drama ofJ. M. Synge Declan Kiberd 270 Tom Paulin, Ireland and the English Crisis and Lucy McDiarmid, Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden between the Wars Andrew Gibson 272 Eric Binnie, The Theatrical Designs of Charles Ricketts J. G. P. Delaney 276 Ellie Howe (ed.), The Alchemist of the Golden Dawn: the Letters of the Revd W. A. Ayton to F. L. Gardner and Others, 1886--1905 Warwick Gould 279 A Biographical Miscellany: Some Recent Biographies, Biographical Studies, Memoirs and Letters [including notices of Peter Ackroyd, T. S. Eliot; Richard Allen Cave (ed.), Hail and Farewell Ave, Salve, Vale (2nd edn); William Empson, Using Biograplry; Desmond Flower (ed.), New Letters from Ernest Dawson; Rupert Hart-Davis (ed.), More Letters of Oscar Wilde; Jeffrey Myers (ed.), The Craft of Literary 280 Co11tents vu Biograp~v; Donaici Stanford (ed.), Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919) by john Masefield; Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse: a Literary Landscape 1849-1928 Gmevieve Bren11an 280 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND RESEARCH MATERIALS Location Register of Twentieth-Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: a Cumulative Yeats Listing (to Autumn, 1985) David C. Sutto11 289 A Recent Yeats Bibliography, 1984-85 Warwick Gould 320 Publications Received Warwick Gould 341 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), (eds) George Mills Harper and Walter Kelly Hood (London: Macmillan, 1978). AVB A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1962). CL I The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, volume one 1865-95, (eds) John Kelly and Eric Domville (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985). 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, intro. Kathleen Raine (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1964). LMR Ah, Sweet Dancer: W. B. Yeats Margot Ruddock, A Correspondence (ed.) Roger McHugh (London and New York: Macmillan, 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 & Kegan Paul; New York: Oxford University Press, 1953). LTWBY Letters to W. B. Yeats (eds) Richard J. Finneran, George Mills 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). Vlll IX List of Abbreviations Myth Mythologies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1959). OBMV The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935. Chosen by W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Clarendon, 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 & Faber, 1961). UP/ Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, vol. I (ed.) John P. Frayne (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1970). UP2 Uncollected Prose by W. B Yeats, vol. 2 (eds) John P. Frayne and Colton Johnson (London: Macmillan, 1975; New York: Columbia University Press, 1976). VP The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats (eds} Peter Alit and Russell K. Alspach (New York and London: Macmillan, 1957). (To be cited from the corrected third printing [ 1966) or later printings.) VPl The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. 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 (eds) Phillip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould & Michael J. Sidnell (Ithaca: 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 of W. B. Yeats's Library (New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985). YO Yeats and The Occult (ed.) George Mills Harper (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975; London: Macmillan, 1975). YT Yeats and The Theatre (eds) Robert O'Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975; London: Macmillan, 1975). Editorial Board Seamus Deane Yukio Oura Denis Donoghue Marjorie Perloff Richard EHmann Kathleen Raine Ian Fletcher Ronald W. Schuchard Jacqueline Genet Michael J. Sidnell A. NormanJeffares Colin Smythe K. P. S. Jochum C. K. Stead John S. Kelly Katharine Worth Phillip L. Marcus Research Editor: Deirdre Toomey X Notes on the Contributors Sir George Barnes (1904-1960). Seep. 189. Michael Baron is a Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London, and co-editor of English: the Journal of the English Association.