Later articles and reviews : uncollected articles, reviews, and radio broadcasts written after 1900 / W.B. Yeats ; edited by Colton Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Contributor:

Johnson, Colton.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. 1989 ; Works. v. 10.

The collected works of W.B. Yeats ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Reviews.

Books.

Genre:

Reviews.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

426 pages : facsimiles, music ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, [2000]

Summary:

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume X: Later Articles and Reviews is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This first complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes.

Later Articles and Reviews consists of fifty-four prose pieces published between 1900 and Yeats's death in January 1939 and benefits from the notes and emendations of Yeats scholar Colton Johnson. The pieces collected here are occasional, and they reflect the many interests and engagements of Yeats in his maturity. No longer a reviewer or polemicist, Yeats is an international figure: a senator in the fledgling Irish state, a defining modern poet, a distinguished essayist. And here we have him writing -- with grace, wit, and passion -- on the state of Ireland in the world, on Irish language and Irish literature, on his artistic contemporaries, on the Abbey Theater, on divorce, on censorship, on his evolution as a poet and dramatist, on his own poetry.

Volume X also includes texts of ten radio programs Yeats broadcast between 1931 and 1937. This is not only the first collection but also the first printing of Yeats's radio work, which constitutes the largest previously uncollected body of his writings and possibly the most important to remain largely unstudied. Carefully assembled from manuscripts, typescripts, broadcast scripts, and fragmentary recordings, the programs range from a scripted interview on contemporary issues to elaborate stagings of his own and others' poetry. One of the radio programs is presented in an appendix complete with the commissioned musical score that set Yeats's poetry to music, Yeats's own emendations on the BBC broadcast script, and the diacritical notes with which the broadcast reader indicated Yeats's interpretive instructions.

Here, then, is seasoned Yeats, writing and speaking vigorously and with keen personal insight about the modern age and his place in it.

Contents:

Later Articles and Reviews

1. Noble and Ignoble Loyalties: The United Irishman, 21 April 1900 21

2. Irish Fairy Beliefs: The Speaker, 14 July 1900 23

3. Irish Witch Doctors: The Fortnightly Review, September 1900 26

4. Irish Language and Irish Literature: The Leader, 1 September 1900 46

5. A Postscript to a Forthcoming Book of Essays by Various Writers: All Ireland Review, 1 December 1900 51

6. John Eglinton: The United Irishman, 9 November 1901 53

7. Literature and the Conscience: The United Irishman, 7 December 1901 60

8. Egyptian Plays: The Star, 23 January 1902 62

9. Away: The Fortnightly Review, April 1902 64

10. Mr Yeats's New Play: The United Irishman, 5 April 1902 82

11. An Ancient Conversation: All Ireland Review, 5, 12 April 1902 84

12. The Acting at St Teresa's Hall: The United Irishman, 12 April 1902 87

13. The Acting at St Teresa's Hall II: The United Irishman, 26 April 1902 89

14. The Freedom of the Theatre: The United Irishman, 1 November 1902 92

15. A Canonical Book: The Bookman, May 1903 95

16. The Irish National Theatre and Three Sorts of Ignorance: The United Irishman, 24 October 1903 99

17. Emmet the Apostle of Irish Liberty: The Gaelic American, 5 March 1904 101

18. America and the Arts: The Metropolitan Magazine, April 1905 116

19. British Association Visit to the Abbey Theatre: British Association Visit, Abbey Theatre, Special Programme, 4, 8 September 1908 121

20. The Art of the Theatre: The New Age, 16 June 1910 127

21. The Theatre of Beauty: Harper's Weekly, 11 November 1911 129

22. The Story of the Irish Players: Sunday Record-Herald, 4 February 1912 134

23. The Polignac Prize: Royal Society of Literature, The Academic Committee: Addresses of Reception, 1914 137

24. Thomas Davis: New Ireland, 17 July 1915 140

25. Sir Hugh Lane's Pictures: The Observer, January 21, 1917 145

26. Major Robert Gregory: The Observer, February 17, 1918 153

27. The Irish Dramatic Movement: The Voice of Ireland, 1923 155

28. Nobel Prize Acceptance: Les Prix Nobel en 1923, 1924 164

29. Miss Sara Allgood: The Irish Times, January 19, 1924 165

30. A Memory of Synge: The Irish Statesman, July 5, 1924 166

31. Compulsory Gaelic: The Irish Statesman, August 2, 1924 168

32. Royal Irish Society Awards at the Tailteann Festival: The Transatlantic Review, November 1924 178

33. An Undelivered Speech: The Irish Statesman, March 14, 1925 182

34. Divorce: The Irish Times, June 12, 1925 186

35. The Child and the State: The Irish Statesman, December 5, 12, 1925 192

36. The Need for Audacity of Thought: The Dial, February 1926 198

37. A Defence of the Abbey Theatre: The Dublin Magazine, April-June 1926 203

38. Memorial to the Late T. W. Lyster: [pamphlet for subscribers], June 1926 208

39. The Censorship and St Thomas Aquinas: The Irish Statesman, September 22, 1928 211

40. The Irish Censorship: The Spectator, September 29, 1928 214

41. Oedipus the King: BBC Broadcast, September 8, 1931 219

42. Reading of Poems: BBC Broadcast, September 8, 1931 224

43. Ireland, 1921-1931: The Spectator, January 30, 1932 230

44. Poems About Women: BBC Broadcast, April 10, 1932 234

45. Plain Man's Oedipus: The New York Times, January 15, 1933 244

46. The Great Blasket: The Spectator, June 2, 1933 246

47. The Growth of a Poet: The Listener, April 4, 1934 249

48. The Irish Literary Movement: Radio Eireann Broadcast, October 12, 1935 254

49. Abbey Theatre Broadcast: BBC Broadcast, February 1, 1937 259

50. In the Poet's Pub: BBC Broadcast, April 2, 1937 266

51. In the Poet's Parlour: BBC Broadcast, April 22, 1937 276

52. My Own Poetry: BBC Broadcast, July 3, 1937 283

53. My Own Poetry Again: BBC Broadcast, October 29, 1937 290

54. I Became an Author: The Listener, August 4, 1938 297

A. Copy-Texts Used for This Edition 301

B. Emendations to the Copy-Texts and Broadcast Texts 303

C. The Setting of 'My Own Poetry' 310.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-411) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0684807270

OCLC:

41580368