W. B. Yeats: A Select Bibliography
Biographies and General Introductions |
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Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (London: OUP 1941; rep. 1967).
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T[homas] R. Henn, The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of Yeats (London: Methuen 1950; rev. edn. 1965), 375pp.
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A. Norman Jeffares: W. B. Yeats: A New Biography (London: Hutchinson 1988; reps. 1989, 1990, 2001), x, 374pp.;
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Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (London: Macmillan 1954; rep. Faber 1964; 1983), ix, 343pp. [Appendix, Chronology, and Notes, pp.250ff.;
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Denis Donoghue, ed., The Integrity of Yeats [RTE/Thomas Davis Lectures, 1960] (Cork: Mercier Press 1964), 70pp., & Do . (Folcroft Library Editions, 1971), [3], 70pp.
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Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats ( Oxford: Blackwell 2001), 432pp.;
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R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage (OUP 1996), 625pp., Do ., pb. rep. (1998), 672pp.; R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats - A Life, II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 ( Oxford: OUP 2003), 798pp. [with index].
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Note: Fosters is the authoritative biography but you are not expected to read it in full – only at best to familiarise yourselves with its practical value as a resource in research and writing. |
Topical studies |
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George Mills Harper, ed., Yeats and The Occult (London: Macmillan 1976), 322pp.
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G[eorge] J. Watson, W. B. Yeats, from “Unity of Culture” to “Anglo-Irish Solitude”, in Irish Identity and the Literary Revival (London: Croom Helm 1979), pp.87-150;
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Mary Helen Thuente, W. B. Yeats and Irish Folklore (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1980; Totowa: Barnes & Noble 1981), x, 286pp.
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Deane, Yeats and the Idea of Revolution, in Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980 (London: Faber & Faber 1985), pp.38-50.
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Edward Said, Yeats and Decolonialization [Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature] (Derry: Field Day 1988), 27pp.;
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Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Gender and History in Yeatss Love Poetry (Cambridge UP 1993; Syracuse 1996), xiii, 334pp.
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Jonathan Allison, ed., Yeatss Political Identities: Selected Essays ( Michigan UP 1996) [ contents ].
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Marjorie Elizabeth Howes, Yeatss Nations: Gender, Class and Irishness ( Cambridge UP 1996), ix, 240pp.
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Reference works & Collections |
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N. Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1984).
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Jonathan Allison, ed., Yeatss Political Identities: Selected Essays ( Michigan UP 1996), 352pp.
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Majorie Howes & John Kelly, eds., The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats ( Cambridge UP 2006), xvi, 242 [4]pp.
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Bibliographical details - collections |
Yeatss Political Identities: Selected Essays, ed. Jonathan Allison ( Michigan UP 1996), 352pp. |
CONTENTS:
Acknowledgments [ix];
Allison, Introduction:
Fascism, Nationalism,
Reception [1]. PART
1: Yeats and Fascism.
Conor Cruise OBrien,
[from] Passion and
Cunning: An Essay on the
Politics of W. B. Yeats
[29]; Conor Cruise OBrien,
[from] Introduction
to Passion and Cunning
and Other Essays
[57]; Elizabeth Cullingford,
From Democracy to
Authority [61].
PART 2: Yeats and the
Ascendancy. R. F. Foster,
Protestant Magic:
W. B. Yeats and the Spell
of Irish History
[83]; Marjorie Howes,
Family Values: Gender,
Sexuality, and Crisis
in Yeatss Anglo-Irish
Aristocracy [107].
PART 3. Nationalism and
Revolution. Seamus Deane,
Yeats and the Idea
of Revolution [133];
Declan Kiberd, Inventing
Irelands [145];
Richard Kearney, [from]
Myth and Terror
[165]; David Lloyd, [from]
The Poetics of Politics:
Yeats and the Founding
of the State [181];
Edna Longley, Helicon
and ni Houlihan: Michael
Robartes and the Dancer
[203]; Maurice
Harmon, Yeats, Austin
Clarke and Seán
OFaoláin
[221]; George Bornstein,
Romancing the (Native)
Stone: Yeats, Stevens,
and the Anglocentric Canon
[235]. PART 4. Seamus
Heaney, Some Responses:
In the Midst of the Force
Field [257]; Augustine
Martin, What Stalked
through the Post Office?
[reply to Seamus Deane]
[261]; Terence Brown,
Yeats, Joyce and
the Irish Critical Debate
[279]; David Krause, The
De-Yeatsification Cabal
[293]; Hazard Adams, Yeats
and Antithetical Nationalism
[309]; Ronald Bush, The
Modernist under Siege
[325]. Select Annotated
Bibliography [335]; Contributors
[349].
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The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats, ed. Majorie Howes & John Kelly ( Cambridge UP 2006), xvi, 242 [4]pp. |
CONTENTS:
1. Marjorie Howes, Introduction
[1]; 2. George Bornstein,
Yeats and Romanticism
[19]; 3. George Watson,
Yeats, Victorianism,
and the 1890s [36];
4. Daniel Albright, Yeats
and Modernism [59];
5. Helen Vendler, The
later poetry [77];
6. Bernard ODonoghue,
Yeats and the drama
[101]; 7. Declan Kiberd,
Yeats and criticism
[115]; 8. James Pethica,
Yeats, folklore,
and Irish legend
[129]; 9. Margaret Mills
Harper, Yeats and
the Occult [144];
10. Elizabeth Butler Cullingford,
Yeats and gender
[167]; 11. Jonathan Allison,
Yeats and politics
[185]; 12. Howes, Yeats
and the postcolonial [206];
Select bibliography [226];
Index [232]; Selected
Bibliography & Index
[226ff.]
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