William Butler Yeats: Index of Commentaries

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‘He was one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.’ (T. S. Eliot, Lecture on Yeats in the Abbey Theatre [1939], quoted in Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats, 2001, p.378; cited in Brendan T. Mitchell, PG Dip., UU 2009.)

‘Yeats was always passionately beating on the wall of the physical world in order to provoke an answer from the other side.’ (Seamus Heaney, ‘Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin’, in Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001, London: Faber & Faber, p.319; quoted in Carl Campbell, PG Dip., UU 2009.)

Samuel Beckett

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George Orwell Seán O’Faolain Monk Gibbon	Peter Ure Thomas Kinsella Denis Donoghue	Donald Davie Richard Kain Malcolm Brown	A. N. Jeffares Virginia Moore Donald Torchiana

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Mary Helen Thuente E. B. Cullingford Maeve Good Conor Cruise O’Brien	Daniel Albright Ronald Schleifer William Bonney Mitsuko Ohno	Robert Welch David Lloyd G. J. Watson Edward Said	Seamus Heaney Hazard Adams Marjorie Howes Richard Allen Cave

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Gerry Smyth Terence Brown Brenda Maddox Hermione Lee	Rachel V. Billigheimer Selina Guinness Fintan O’Toole Jonathan Allison	R. F. Foster Ann Saddlemyer Peter McDonald Tony Jordan	Margaret Mills Harper Aaron Kelly Frank Kermode Mohammed Meimandi

A selection listing of commentary on Yeats by leading critics in part or whole is held in the RICORSO Library, “Criticism > Major Authors” > W. B. Yeats - as follows:

H. Adams (1995)
D. Albright (1990)
W. Bonney (1991)
R. Billigheimer (1999)
S. Deane (1985)
D. Donoghue (1963)
R. Ellmann (1948)
R. Ellmann (1954)
R. F. Foster (1993)

R. F. Foster (1997)
R. F. Foster (2003)
M. Gibbon (1959)
M. H. Harper (2006)
S. Heaney (1989)
T. R. Henn (1965)
M. Howes (1996)
A. N. Jeffares (1988)
A. Jordan (2000)

R. Kain (1962)
B. Maddox (1999)
L. MacNeice (1941)
J. MacFarlane (1976)
A. Saddlemyer (2002)
R. Schliefer (1991)
M. H. Thuente (1979)
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