The Edinburgh companion to W.B. Yeats and the arts / edited by Charles I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson and Tom Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armstrong, Charles I., 1969- editor.

Paterson, Adrian, 1976- editor.

Walker, Tom, 1981- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Yeats, W. B.

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

Arts--19th century.

Arts.

Arts--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 467 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Companion to W.B. Yeats and the arts

W.B. Yeats and the arts

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This edited volume comprehensively addresses Yeats's engagements across the arts - as both writer and cultural worker.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Contexts and Concepts

1. Yeats, William Morris and the Aesthetics of the Everyday

2. Yeats and The Savoy: French Decadence and Irish Poetry

3. The Institutionalisation of Art in Dublin: Yeats, Sociability and Transnationalism

4. The Virtual Archive of Anima Mundi

5. On the Scale of Art and the Aesthetics of Difficulty: Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' as Ecological Critique

6. Knowing Ruskin's Cat: Yeats and the Proper Names of the Aesthetic

7. Cuchulain the Cowboy: A Tale of Yeats and the Wild West

Part II Visual and Material Culture

8. Yeats, Blake and the Romanticism of the Arts and Crafts Movement

9. Yeats and Edwardian Languages of Art

10. The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and the Limits of Portraiture

11. A 'cacophony of sardine tins': Yeats and Modern Art

12. Yeats, Byzantine Art and Celtic Occultism

13. A Swedish Bounty: Yeats, Public Art and European Nationalisms in the Free State

14. Preservation and Proportion in 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited'

15. Late Yeats, Print and Symbolic Book Design: The Case of Responsibilities

16. Illustrating the 1935 and 1937 Cuala Press Broadsides

17. Poetry, Painting and Posterity: Yeats as Example and Burden

Part III Performance and Sound

18. The 'World That Sang and Listened': Yeats and Florence Farr's 'New Art' of Verse Speaking

19. 'Music had driven their wits astray': Raftery, Nietzsche and the Applied Arts

20. Yeats and Wagner: The Countess Cathleen and Other Plays

21. 'We must have a new kind of scenic art': Yeats's Set Design and Stagecraft

22. Yeats, Gender-Bending and the Art of Transvestism

23. The Dramaturgy of Movement: Choreographic Writing in The Dreaming of the Bones

24. Choreographic Collaborations: Yeats and Ninette de Valois

25. 'Lose my words in patterns of sound': Music in the Dance Plays for Ninette de Valois

26. Yeats's Common Measure: The Later Ballads

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 19, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1-4744-9968-6

1-4744-9967-8