Yeats, Sligo And Ireland
21.6 x 13.8 pp. x, 267 pp. 1980 Irish Literary Studies series (ISSN 0140-895X) volume 6
The twenty-first Yeats International Summer School was held in Sligo in 1980, and the Yeats Society, wishing to mark the school’s coming of age, asked Professor A. Norman Jeffares to edit a volume of essays specially commissioned for the occasion. These essays are by Directors of the school and scholars who have lectured at it.
The essayists are Lester Conner, Denis Donoghue, Barbara Hardy, Seamus Heaney, T. R. Henn, John Holloway, A. Norman Jeffares, John Kelly, F. S. L. Lyons, Augustine Martin, D. E. S. Maxwell, William M. Murphy, Patrick Rafroidi, Ann Saddlemyer and Helen Vendler, together with a poem by Brendan Kennelly. OnIy one essay is not new, that by the late T. R. Henn; it was given as a lecture and included in his Last Essays: appositely it is on his native Sligo,
These essays show the breadth of Yeats studies, indicating eloquently the tremendous hold that Yeats exerts on scholar and general reader alike, stressing that he is the greatest poet Ireland and the twentieth century have produced.
'Remarkable for their vitality and freshness of interpretation.' ,i>Choice
CONTENTS<br
Acknowledgements <br
Introduction. A. Norman Jeffares<br
A MATTER OF CHARACTER: RED HANRAHAN AND CRAZY JANE. Lester I.Conner<br
ROMANTIC IRELAND. Denis Donoghue<br
THE WILDNESS OF CRAZY JANE. Barbara Hardy<br
YEATS AS AN EXAMPLE?. Seamus Heaney<br
THE PLACE OF SHELLS. T.R.Henn<br
HOW GOES THE WEATHER? John Holloway<br
YEATS AND THE WRONG LEVER. A.Norman Jeffares<br
THE VISITOR. Brendan Kennelly<br
YEATS AND VICTORIAN IRELAND. F.S.L.Lyons<br
HOUND VOICES WERE THEY ALL: AN EXPERIMENT IN YEATS CRITICISM. Augustine Martin<br
THE SHAPE-CHANGERS. D.E.S.Maxwell<br
HOME LIFE AMONG THE YEATSES. William M.Murphy<br
YEATS, NATURE AND THE SELF. Patrick Rafroidi<br
THE 'DWARF DRAMAS' OF THE EARLY ABBEY THEATRE. Ann Saddlemyer<br
FOUR ELEGIES. Helen Vendler<br
BOOKS AND NUMBERLESS DREAMS: YEATS'S RELATIONS WITH HIS EARLY PUBLISHERS. John S.Kelly<br
Notes on Contributors<br
Speakers at Sligo 1960-1980<br
Index