Yeats Annual No. 5

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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Eireann Archives....Pages 186-188 George Barnes’s “W. B. Yeats and Broadcasting” 1940....Pages 189-194 W. B. Yeats’s Unpublished Talk on His Version of King Oedipus Broadcast from the BBC Belfast Studio on 8 September 1931....Pages 195-199 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 Bards of the Gael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