Yeats Annual No. 5

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Yeats’s “Last Poems”: a Reconsideration....Pages 3-14
Porphyry’s Cup: Yeats, Forgetfulness and the Narrative Order....Pages 15-45
Arthur Symons’s Letters to W. B. Yeats: 1892–1902....Pages 46-61
Yeats, Wordsworth and the Communal Sense: the Case of “If I were Four-and-Twenty”....Pages 62-82
The Writing and Performance of The Hour-Glass....Pages 83-102
At the Hawk’s Well and Taka No Izumi in a “Creative Circle”....Pages 103-113
“Laying the Ghosts”? — W. B. Yeats’s Lecture on Ghosts and Dreams....Pages 114-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Vignettes....Pages 139-153
Yeats and Gogarty....Pages 154-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Magical Manuscripts: an Introduction to the Archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn....Pages 163-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
W. B. Yeats and the BBC: a Reassessment....Pages 181-185
Yeats Material in the Radio Telefis Eireann Archives....Pages 186-188
George Barnes’s “W. B. Yeats and Broadcasting” 1940....Pages 189-194
W. B. Yeats’s Unpublished Talk on His Version of King Oedipus Broadcast from the BBC Belfast Studio on 8 September 1931....Pages 195-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Bards of the Gael and Gall: an Uncollected Review by Yeats in The Illustrated London News....Pages 203-211
“What is the explanation of it all?”: Yeats’s “little poem about nothing”....Pages 212-213
“The Binding of the Hair” and Yeats’s Reading of Eugene O’Curry....Pages 214-223
The Morals of Deirdre....Pages 224-231
“The Crazed Moon” and the Myth of Dionysus....Pages 232-237
The “myth [in] … reply to a myth” — Yeats, Balzac, and Joachim of Fiore....Pages 238-251
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Regarding the Yeats Society of Japan....Pages 252-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Mary Lou Kohfeldt, Lady Gregory: the Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance (London: Andre Deutsch, 1985)....Pages 257-260
Joseph Adams, Yeats and the Masks of Syntax (London: Macmillan, 1984) pp. viii+ 111.....Pages 260-266
Okifumi Komesu, The Double Perspective of Yeats’s Aesthetic (Gerrards Cross, Bucks: Colin Smythe, 1984) pp. 200.....Pages 267-270
Seamus Deane, Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature (London: Faber & Faber, 1985) pp. 199. Mary C. King, The Drama of J. M. Synge (London: Fourth Estate, 1985) pp. 229.....Pages 270-272
Tom Paulin, Ireland and the English Crisis (Bloodaxe Books, 1985). Lucy McDiarmid, Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden between the Wars (Cambridge University Press, 1984) pp. 144.....Pages 272-276
Eric Binnie, The Theatrical Designs of Charles Ricketts (Michigan, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985; distributed in the UK by Bowker Publishing Co.).....Pages 276-279
Ellic Howe (ed.), The Alchemist of the Golden Dawn: the Letters of the Revd W. A. Ayton to F. L. Gardner and Others 1886–1905 (Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1985).....Pages 279-280
A Biographical Miscellany: Some Recent Biographies, Biographical Studies, Memoirs and Letters....Pages 280-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-341