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This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished
manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected
W.B.Yeats's development as a poet. Besides presenting a factual
account of his acquaintance with English Renaissance writers based
on evidence from his library and elsewhere, the study examines his
response to numerous minor figures and several major ones -
including Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Milton.
The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne appear throughout
the writing of the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, featuring in his
poems, short fictions, dialogues and as authorities in notes to his
work. Bringing together into one volume published and unpublished
writings featuring these two enigmatic figures, W.B. Yeats's
Robartes-Aherne Writings traces their history and the development
of Yeats's mystical thought that culminated (twice) in the
publication of his visionary work A Vision (1925, 1937). Including
reproductions of manuscript and notebook pages as well as
transcriptions and extracts from a wide range of Yeats's mystical
writings and substantial commentary and annotation throughout, this
book is an essential resource for scholars of Yeats's thought, his
stylistic evolution and the esoteric influences on modernist
writing in the early 20th century.
Originally published in 1892, The Countess Cathleen aroused
fierce controversy when it was first performed in 1899. The play
was frequently revived and almost as often revised, becoming at
various points in Yeats's career a decisive indicator of his
relations with his literary and theatrical public, of his changing
conception of dramatic form, and of the status of his pursuit of
Maud Gonne, for whom the play was written.
This volume in the Cornell Yeats reproduces the complete set of
extant manuscripts preceding the play's first publication and
reassembles the extensive manuscript, proof, and authorial copy to
present a crucial body of evidence of Yeats's work and thought in
drama and theater over the course of three decades. The Cornell
Yeats edition gives literatim transcriptions and photographic
reproductions of all the holographic materials pertaining to the
writing, revising, and rewriting of The Countess Cathleen from 1889
to 1934. It includes all textual variants from other sources such
as typescript, corrected proofs, and prompt copies.
Copublished with Pace University Press, this book is a valuable
addition to scholarship on Bloomsbury, the history of women in
Britain, and the work of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It portrays an
era and illuminates the work of a number of famous writers by
examining less well-known lives and works that were part of the
adaptive complex, or milieu. Several essays and appendices
contribute significantly to our understanding of the extent that
the Woolfs collaborated with each other and with others. Beside the
literary histories of S.P. Rosenbaum, this collection of original
essays will be essential reading for students of Bloomsbury and
women's history. Illustrated.
The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne appear throughout
the writing of the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, featuring in his
poems, short fictions, dialogues and as authorities in notes to his
work. Bringing together into one volume published and unpublished
writings featuring these two enigmatic figures, W.B. Yeats's
Robartes-Aherne Writings traces their history and the development
of Yeats's mystical thought that culminated (twice) in the
publication of his visionary work A Vision (1925, 1937). Including
reproductions of manuscript and notebook pages as well as
transcriptions and extracts from a wide range of Yeats's mystical
writings and substantial commentary and annotation throughout, this
book is an essential resource for scholars of Yeats's thought, his
stylistic evolution and the esoteric influences on modernist
writing in the early 20th century.
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