The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume II: 1896-1900
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume II: 1896-1900

Author: W. B. Yeats

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1997-09-04

Total Pages: 872

ISBN-13: 9780198126829

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Described by Seamus Heaney as `one of the great publishing events of the decade', The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats is redefining the territory of modern literary history. Covering a formative period in Yeats's political career, and the beginning of his theatrical involvement, Volume II (1896-1900) is indispensable to anyone interested in modern poetry, Irish drama, and cultural history. Letter by letter Yeat's private concerns, artistic quarrels and exhausting political life are revealed. Rich and readable notes provide a narrative of these years, explaining allusions, and setting the correspondence in its cultural and political contexts, as well as relating it to the emergence of Yeats's canon.

Mythologies
Mythologies

Author: William Butler Yeats

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998-05-26

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0684826216

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This is the definitive edition of W.B. Yeats's folklore & early prose fiction, edited according to Yeats's final textual instructions. Its extensive annotation makes luminous Yeats's 'fibrous darkness', that 'matrix out of which everything else has come', by dealing with oral & written sources, abandoned & unpublished writings.

Builders of My Soul
Builders of My Soul

Author: Brian Arkins

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780389209133

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To Yeats, as well as to Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and other major writers, as Erich Auerbach put it in Mimesis, "Antiquity means liberation and a broadening of horizons, not in any sense a new limitation or servitude." That is why Greco-Roman themes can be endlessly stimulating, why Yeats could call the Greek and Roman writers "the builders of my soul." Brian Arkin's thematic consideration of Yeat's subject matter under philosophy, myth, religion, history, literature, visual art, and Byzantium, allows us to see coherently how Yeats exploited this material and how, especially in his middle and later periods, he transformed and metamorphosed subject matter from Homer, Phidias, Plato, Plotinus, and Sophocles, and from the myths of Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Leda, and Zeus, to exemplify his central preoccupations. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 32.

Yeats and the Visual Arts
Yeats and the Visual Arts

Author: Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2003-03-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780815629955

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This beautifully illustrated book traces W. B. Yeats's fascination with the visual arts from his early years, which were strongly influenced by his father's paintings and the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, to his celebration in his old age of Greek sculpture, Byzantine mosaics, and Michaelangelo's art.

The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe
The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe

Author: Klaus Peter Jochum

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 1073

ISBN-13: 1623569516

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The intellectual and cultural impact of British and Irish writers cannot be assessed without reference to their reception in European countries. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which W. B. Yeats has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of continental Europe. There is a remarkable split between the often politicized reception in Eastern European countries but also Spain on the one hand, and the more sober scholarly response in Western Europe on the other. Yeats's Irishness and the pre-eminence of his lyrical work have posed continuous challenges. Three further essays describe the widely divergent reactions to Yeats in his native Ireland, during his lifetime and up to the most recent years.