Prodigal father revisited : artists and writers in the world of John Butler Yeats / edited by Janis Londraville.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Londraville, Janis, 1949-

Series:

Locust Hill literary studies ; no. 34.

Locust Hill literary studies ; no. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922--Friends and associates.

Yeats, John Butler.

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922.

Portrait painters.

Friends and associates.

Ireland--Intellectual life--19th century.

Ireland.

Intellectual life.

Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century.

Authors, Irish--19th century--Biography.

Authors, Irish.

Authors, Irish--20th century--Biography.

Portrait painters--Ireland--Biography.

Artists--Ireland--Biography.

Artists.

Ireland--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 506 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill Press, 2003.

Contents:

"John Butler Yeats at the Easel" / Richard Londraville xxvii

Section 1 The Yeats Family

John Butler Yeats / Van Wyck Brooks 3

The Letters of John Butler Yeats: A Sampler / William M. Murphy 11

John Butler Yeats and the Calumet / Sam McCready 35

"Every Paddler's Heritage": W.B. Yeats, Hans Christian Andersen, Susan Pollexfen Yeats, S.T. Coleridge and Children's Stories / Maneck H. Daruwala 47

W.B. Yeats, J.B. Yeats, and "Art without Imitation" / Phillip L. Marcus 101

"Beautiful Lofty Things" / Douglas Saum 115

Creating Cuala: Lily and Lollie Yeats and the Cuala Industries / Maureen Murphy 123

Vision and Narrative in Jack B. Yeats's The Amaranthers / Peter Miles 149

"Drawing into Oil": John and Jack B. Yeats / Hilary Pyle 171

Section 2 Jeanne Robert Foster

John Butler Yeats's Poetic Advice to Jeanne Robert Foster / Richard Londraville 193

"To Friends: For Jeanne Robert Foster" / Arthur Nethaway Collins 223

"... Unquestionably the loveliest woman ever" / Paul Londraville 225

Jeanne Robert Foster: Muse to the Muses / Coral Crosman 229

The Excitement of an Afternoon Call: A Move Toward the Modern Voice in the Poetry of Jeanne Robert Foster / Cathy Fagan 237

Section 3 Art and Artists

John Quinn's Fight for Art / Janis Londraville 257

Pilgrim Father, Native Son: John Butler Yeats, John Sloan, and the Making of a Friendship in New York City, 1909-1922 / Paul B. Franklin 265

Paul Swan: The Art of "The Most Beautiful Man in the World" / Janis Londraville 331

Section 4 Writers and Dreamers, then and now

Ex-"Pathriots": Florence Farr Emery and John Butler Yeats / Josephine Johnson 351

Van Wyck Brooks and His Maestro, John Butler Yeats, or, The American Literary Renaissance / Nancy Cardozo 375

Ezra Pound as "Fictional" Character in Richard Stern's Stitch / David Garrett Izzo 413

Derek Mahon's JBY and the Genealogy of the Exile / Lucy McDiarmid 433

Section 5 Finale

John Butler Yeats [as written to William Butler Yeats] / John Quinn 447

"In Memory of John Butler Yeats" / Jeanne Robert Foster 481.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0972228934

OCLC:

51251749