W. B. Yeats: Interviews and Recollections Volume 1

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
W. B. Yeats at School....Pages 1-3
Yeats at the High School....Pages 3-4
Portrait of Yeats....Pages 5-6
Yeats in the Making....Pages 6-13
Personal Impressions of W. B. Yeats....Pages 13-15
With Mr W. B. Yeats in the Woods of Coole....Pages 15-19
Interview with Mr. W. B. Yeats....Pages 19-23
Joyce’s First Meeting with Yeats....Pages 24-27
First Meetings with W. B. Yeats....Pages 27-30
Early Memories of Yeats....Pages 30-34
W. B. Yeats: Early Recollections....Pages 34-40
Yeats and the Rhymers’ Club....Pages 41-41
Yeats, Pound and Ford at Woburn....Pages 42-43
Yeats at Woburn....Pages 43-44
My First Meeting with Yeats....Pages 44-48
Sonnets and Revolutions....Pages 48-50
Vacillation....Pages 50-51
Yeats at the Arts Club....Pages 51-53
Abbey Theatre Scene; Interview with Mr W. B. Yeats....Pages 54-58
‘Abbey’ Scenes Sequel: Prosecution in Police Court; Mr Yeats Describes the Disturbance....Pages 58-61
The Poet is Pleased....Pages 61-62
The Abbey Theatre: Audience Overawed by Police; Interview with Mr Yeats....Pages 62-64
The Irish Theatre; An Interview with W. B. Yeats....Pages 64-68
Plymouth Theatre....Pages 68-70
Yeats Replies to his Critics; Defends Irish Plays Being Produced Here....Pages 70-72
A Lively Discussion over the ‘Irish Plays’....Pages 73-75
Yeats Defends ‘The Playboy’....Pages 76-77
Mr Yeats Explains....Pages 77-78
Abbey Theatre: Pupils’ Performance; Address by Mr W. B. Yeats....Pages 78-80
The Playboy: Another American Surprise. Players Arrested; Interview with Mr W. B. Yeats....Pages 80-82
The Playboy: A Stay in the Court Proceedings; Mr Yeats Interviewed....Pages 82-84
What We Try To Do....Pages 85-88
An Interview with Mr. W. B. Yeats....Pages 88-91
Mr W. B. Yeats: Poet and Mystic....Pages 91-95
The Early Days of the Irish National Theatre....Pages 96-98
Some Impressions of My Elders: William Butler Yeats....Pages 99-117
Meetings with W. B. Yeats....Pages 118-119
Irish Literature Discussed by William Butler Yeats in an Interview....Pages 120-125
With William Butler Yeats....Pages 126-131
Meeting Yeats....Pages 131-135
Yeats at Oxford....Pages 135-136
Conversations with W. B. Yeats....Pages 137-139
Recollections of W. B. Yeats in Rapallo....Pages 139-140
Sidelight....Pages 140-142
Reminiscences of W. B. Yeats....Pages 142-146
Yeats at his Ease....Pages 147-155
A Day with Yeats....Pages 156-158
Four O’Clock Tea with W. B. Yeats....Pages 158-164
The Plough and the Stars; Mr Sean O’Casey’s New Play....Pages 164-165
With the Poet in Merrion Square....Pages 165-173
Profiles of a Poet....Pages 173-188
A Contact with Yeats....Pages 189-192
Memory of Meeting Yeats....Pages 193-196
Did You Know Yeats?....Pages 196-197