W. B. YEATS Critical Assessments61. FRANCIS BICKLEY, 'Mr Yeats's Odyssey', The Bookman, 301 August...
Transcript of W. B. YEATS Critical Assessments61. FRANCIS BICKLEY, 'Mr Yeats's Odyssey', The Bookman, 301 August...
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W. B. YEATS
Critical Assessments•
Edited by
David Pierce
VOLUME I
Contemporary Reviews; Select List
of Reviews of Plays in Performance;
1887-1988
HELM INFORMATION
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Contents
VOLUME I:Contemporary Reviews; Select List of
Reviews of Plays in Performance;1887-1988
General Editor's Preface 1Introduction 3A Note on the Texts , 25A Chronology of Yeats's Life 26Bibliography: Yeats's Major Works 35Critical Bibliography 45Chronological List of Criticism Included 67List of Topics 89Acknowledgements ' 111
Contemporary Reviews
Mosada (1886)1. K[ATHARINE] T[YNAN], from 'Three Young Poets', The 121
Irish Monthly, March 1887
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888)2. ANONYMOUS, from 'Notes on New Books', The Irish 123
Monthly, November 18883. OSCAR WILDE, 'Some Literary Notes', Woman's World, 124
February 18894. [ALFRED NUTT] , 'Review of Fairy and Folk Tales of the 128
Irish Peasantry', The Athenceum, 9 February 1889
The Wanderings ofOisin and Other Poems (1889)5. ANONYMOUS, from 'Literature: Some Recent Poetry', 132
The Freeman's fournal, 1 February 1889
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6. [MATTHEW RUSSELL], from 'Notes on New Books',The 134Irish Monthly, February 1889
7. J[OHN] TODHUNTER, Review, The Academy, 30 March 1889. 1358. OSCAR WILDE, from 'Three New Poets', Pall Mall Gazette, 139
12 July 1889
Representative Irish Tales (1891)9. ANONYMOUS, from 'Notes on New Books', The Irish 141
Monthly, July 1891
John Sherman and Dhoya (1891)10. [MATTHEW RUSSELL], 'Notes on New Books', The Irish 143
Monthly, December 189111. ANONYMOUS, from 'New Books and Reprints ' , The 144
Saturday Review, 5 December 189112. ANONYMOUS, from 'Novels of the Week', The Athenamm, 145
26 December 1891
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892)13. LIONEL JOHNSON, Review, The Academy, 1 October 1892 14614. ANONYMOUS, 'Notes on New Books', The Irish Monthly, 152
October 189215. ANONYMOUS, Review, The Athenceum, 7 January 1893 15416. F. HUGH O'DONNELL, 'Celtic Drama In Dublin', [letter 156
to the editor], The Freeman's Journal, 1 April 1899.
The Celtic Twilight (1893)17 G- Y, 'The Celtic Twilight', The Bookman, February 1894 160
The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)18. G- Y, 'The. Land of Heart's Desire', The Bookman, June 1894 163
Poems (1895)19. A [ N N I E ] M[ACDONELL] , 'Mr Yeats's Poems ' , The 165
Bookman, December 189520. J [OHN] MCG[RATH], 'The Changing of "Oisin"', United 168
Ireland, 14 December 1895
The Secret Rose (1897)21. GEORGE MOORE, 'Mr Yeats's New Book' , The Daily 173
Chronicle, 24 April 189722. ANONYMOUS, 'A Poet's Prose', The Speaker, 8 May 1897 17723. ANONYMOUS, 'Mysteries of the Neo-Celtic Movement', 179
The Dial, 16 April 1898
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The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)24. ANONYMOUS, 'The Muse of Mr Yeats', The Outlook, 29 181
April 189925. ARTHUR SYMONS, 'Mr Yeats As A Lyric Poet', The 183
Saturday Review, 6 May 189926. [FRANCIS THOMPSON], 'Mr Yeats's Poems', The Academy, 187
6 May 189927. [PCHARLES LEWIS HIND] 'Mr W. B. Yeats and The Wind 192
Among the Reeds', The Academy, 20 January 1900
Poems (revised edition 1899)28. ANONYMOUS, 'A Revised Yeats', The Outlook, 22 July 1899 194
A Book of Irish Verse (revised edition 1900)29. [FRANCIS THOMPSON], 'The Irish Literary Movement: 197
Mr Yeats as Shepherd', The Academy, 17 March 1900
The Shadowy Waters (1900-1)30. ANONYMOUS, from 'Poets From Ireland', The Outlook, 12 202
January 190131. ANONYMOUS, 'Mr Yeats's New Play', The Academy, 26 205
January 1901
Poems (revised edition 1901)32. [FRANCIS THOMPSON], 'The Poet As Tinkerer ' , The 208
Academy, 11 May, 1901'
Ideas of Good and Evil (1903)33. ANONYMOUS, 'The Hidden Beauty', The Speaker, 30 May 214
190334. ANONYMOUS, Review, The Athenceum, 27 June 1903 21735. HORATIO SHEAFE KRANS, from William Butler Yeats and 222
the Irish Literary Revival, London, 1905
In the Seven Woods (1903)36. H.W. BOYNTON, from 'Books New and Old', The Atlantic 229
Monthly, January 1904
Plays for an Irish Theatre Vols I, II, and III (1903-4)37. ANONYMOUS, 'Drama', The Athenceum , 21 May 1904 231
Deirdre (1907)38. E[DWARD] T[HOMAS], 'Deirdre', The Bookman, October 235
1907
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Collected Works (1908)39. EDWARD THOMAS, 'Books of the Day: An Irish Poet', 238
The Daily Chronicle, 6 March 190940. EDWARD GARNETT, 'The Work of W. B. Yeats', English 241
Review, April 190941. JAMES HUNEKER, 'A Poet of Visions', The Pathos of Distance: 246
A Book of a Thousand and One Moments, London, 1913
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)42. ANONYMOUS,'Reviews of New Books-The Later Yeats', 251
The Irish Review, April 1911
Plays for an Irish Theatre (1911)43. [HAROLD CHILD], 'Mr Yeats's Plays', The Times Literary 254
Supplement, 28 December 191144. DARRELL FIGGIS, 'The Theatre', The Bookman, March 1912 257
Stories of Red Hanrahan, The Secret Rose, Rosa Alchemica (1914)45. GEORGE TOWNSHEND, Review, The Sewanee Review, April 259
1915
Responsibilities (1914)46. EZRA POUND, 'The Later Yeats', Poetry (Chicago), May 1914 261
Responsibilities And Other Poems (1916)47. E[ZRA] P[OUND], 'Mr Yeats' New Book', Poetry (Chicago), 264
December 191648. C[ATHOIR] O' B[AONAIN], Review of Responsibilities and 266
The Poetical Works of Thomas MacDonagh, Studies, March 1917
Responsibilities And Other Poems (1916);Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)
49. [HAROLD CHILD], 'Mr Yeats in Middle Age', The Times 270Literary Supplement, 19 October 1916
50. [?J. S. CRONE], 'Reveries and Responsibilities', The Irish Book 273Lover, December-January, 1916-17
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)51. R. H. C. [A. R. ORAGE], from 'Readers and Writers', The 275
New Age, 2 November 191652. AE [GEORGE RUSSELL], 'The Boyhood Of A Poet', New 277
Ireland, 16 December 191653. P. C[OLUM?], 'A Poet's Upbringing', Poetry (Chicago), April 279
1918
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Per Arnica Silentia Lunae (1918)54. [ARTHUR CLUTTON BROCK], Reality By Moonlight', 281
The Times Literary Supplement, 7 February 191855. FRANCIS BICKLEY, 'Anima Poetae', The Bookman, May 285
191856. [T.S. ELIOT], Review, The Egoist, June-July 1918 287
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)57. [ARTHUR CLUTTON BROCK], 'Tunes Old and New', The 288
Times Literary Supplement, 20 March 191958. KATHARINE TYNAN, 'A Strayed Poet', The Bookman, May 291
1919.
The Cutting of an Agate (1919)59. ANONYMOUS, 'A Lapidary', The Times Literary Supplement, 293
1 May 1919.60. T. S. E[LIOT], 'A Foreign Mind', The Athenceum, 4 July 1919 29761. FRANCIS BICKLEY, 'Mr Yeats's Odyssey', The Bookman, 301
August 1919
Selected Poems (1921)62. PADRAIC COLUM, 'Mr Yeats' Selected Poems', The Dial, 304
October 1922
Four Plays for Dancers (1921)63. ANONYMOUS, from 'Poetic Drama' , The Nation and 309
Athenceum, 11 February 1922,64. PADRAIC COLUM, 'A New Dramatic Art', The Dial, March 311
1922
The Trembling of the Veil (1922)65. A[ODH] DE B[LACAM], 'Memoirs of W. B. Yeats: Genesis 314
of the Celtic Movement Described', The Irish Independent,13 November 1922
66. ANONYMOUS, 'Mr Yeats Explains Himself, The Nation 318and Athenaeum, 30 December 1922
Plays in Prose and Verse (1922); Later Poems (1922)67. [HAROLD CHILD], 'Mr Yeats's Dreams', The Times Literary 322
Supplement, 28 September, 1922
Plays and Controversies (1923-4)68. W. P. RYAN, 'Plays And Controversies', The Bookman, March 327
1924
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Essays (1924)69. GEORGE SAMPSON, from 'Two Ways of Criticism', The 329
Bookman, July 1924
Early Poems and Stories (1925)70. [HUGH I'ANSON FAUSSET], 'Mr Yeats in Transition', The 331
Times Literary Supplement, 8 October 192571. W. P. RYAN, 'The Youth of Mr Yeats', The Bookman, March 334
1926
A Vision (1925)72. AE [GEORGE RUSSELL], 'Literature and Life: A Vision', 337
The Irish Statesman, 13 February 192673. ANONYMOUS, 'The Visionary Yeats', New Statesman, 341
27 March 192674. [BASIL DE SELINCOURT], 'Mr Yeats's Occultism', The 344
Times Literary Supplement, 22 April 1926
Autobiographies (1926)75. RICHARD CHURCH, 'W. B. Yeats And The Creative 346
Mask', Calendar of Modern Letters, January 192776. EDMUND WILSON, 'Yeats's Memoirs', The New Republic, 350
23 February 192777. HAMISH MILES, Review, The Monthly Criterion, June 1927 354
The Tower (1928)78. [AUSTIN CLARKE], 'Mr Yeats's New Poems', The Times 357
Literary Supplement, 1 March 192879. JOHN GOULD FLETCHER, from 'Books of the Quarter', 360
The Criterion, September 1928
Selected Poems (1929)80. SEAN O'FAOLAlN, from 'Books of the Quarter', The 362
Criterion, April 1930
The Winding Stair (1929 New York edition)81. MARIANNE MOORE, 'Words for Music Perhaps', Poetry, 368
April 1933
Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932)82. MURIEL C. BRADBROOK, 'Songs Of Experience, Scrutiny, 371
June 193383. THEODORE SPENCER, 'William Butler Yeats', The Hound 373
and Horn, October-December 1933
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The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)84. F. R. LEAVIS, 'The Latest Yeats', Scrutiny, December 1933 38485. ANONYMOUS, Review, Life and Letters, December 1933 38786. HUGH GORDON PORTEUS, Review, The Criterion, 390
January 193487. PADRAIC FALLON, Review, The Dublin Magazine, April- 393
June 1934
Collected Poems (1933)88. ANONYMOUS, Review, The Listener, 31 January 1934 40189. HERBERT READ, 'Books of the Quarter', The Criterion, 403
April 1934
Letters to the New Island (1934)90. KERKER QUINN, 'Memories Differ', The Yale Review, 407
September 1936
Wheels and Butterflies (1934)91. JOHN GOULD FLETCHER, Review, The Southern Review, 409
Summer 1935
Collected Plays (1934)92. JOHN GARRETT, Review of The Collected Plays of W. B. 413
Yeats and Wheels and Butterflies, The Criterion, April 1935
The King of the Great Clock Tower (1934)93. HOWARD BAKER, from'Wallace Stevens and Other Poets', 417
The Southern Review, Autumn 1935
A Full Moon in March (1935)94. H. T. HUNT GRUBB, 'The New Yeats', Poetry Review, 419
January-February 193695. JANET ADAM SMITH, from 'Books of the Quarter', The 421
Criterion, April 193696. RUTH M. D. WAINEWRIGHT, Review, English, Autumn 423
1936
Dramatis Personae (1936)97. PADRAIC COLUM, 'Yeats Looks Back', The Saturday Review
of Literature, 16 May 1936 , 42598. SHERARD VINES, 'Mr Yeats and the Irish Revival', The
Listener, 1 July 1936 42899. LOUIS MACNEICE, from 'Books of the Quarter', The
Criterion, October 1936 430
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The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935,chosen by W. B.Yeats (1936)
100. F. O. MATTHIESSEN, 'W. B. Yeats and Others ' , The 434Southern Review, Spring 1937
101. FREDERICK T. WOOD, from 'Current Literature 1936', 444English Studies, August 1937
102. ROBERT HILLYER, 'Brief Mention', Modern Language Notes, 446December 1937
A Vision (1937)103. ANONYMOUS, 'Views and Reviews: Yeats' "A Vision"', The 448
New English Weekly, 20 January 1938104. HORACE REYNOLDS, 'W. B. Yeats Expounds his "Heavenly 451
Geometry'", The New York Times Book Review, 13 March 1938105. H. T. H U N T GRUBB, 'A Poet's Dream', The Poetry Review, 454
March-April 1938106. STEPHEN SPENDER, from 'Books of the Quarter', The 469
Criterion, April 1938
New Poems (1938)107. WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT, 'Yeats at 73', Poetry, 471
November 1938
Last Poems and Plays (Macmillan 1940)108. F. R. LEAVIS, 'The Great Yeats, And The Latest', Scrutiny, Alb
March 1940109. MARY M. COLUM, 'Poets and Psychologists', Forum, June 479
1940110. JOHN CROWE RANSOM, 'Old Age of a Poet', The Kenyan 484
Review, Summer 1940111. J. J. H[OGAN], from 'English Literature', Studies, December 487
1940
Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley (1940)112. ANONYMOUS, Review, The Dublin Magazine, January- 489
March 1941
Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats: Letters,ed. Clifford Bax (1946)
113. LORNA REYNOLDS, Review, The Dublin Magazine, 491January-March 1947
Collected Poems, (1950)114. [OLIVER EDWARDS], Review, Rann, Summer 1950 493
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115. RICHARD ELLMANN, 'The Identity of Yeats', The Kenyon 496Review, Summer 1951
Collected Plays (1952)116. FRANK O'CONNOR, 'A Lyric Voice in the Irish Theatre', 500
The New York Times Book Review, 31 May 1953117. ANONYMOUS, Review, The Listener, 5 March 1953 504
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats (1953)118. HORACE GREGORY, 'Yeats Revisited', Poetry, June 1954 506
Letters to Katharine Tynan (1953)119. EDITH SHACKLETON, 'Yeats as a Young Man', Britain 510
Today, October 1953
W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore. Their Correspondence 190U1937, ed. Ursula Bridge (1953)
120. C[ID] C[ORMAN], Review, Black Mountain Review, Spring 5121954
Letters, ed. Allan Wade (1954)121. C. DAY LEWIS, Review of The- Letters of W. B. Yeats and 515
Richard Ellmann's The Identity of Yeats, The London Magazine,November 1954
122. MADELEINE-L. CAZAMIAN, from 'La Correspondance 519de W.B. Yeats', Etudes Anglaises, January-March 1955, trans.Michael Glencross, 1999
123. CLEANTH BROOKS, 'Yeats's Letters', The Yale Review, 524June 1955
124. H.W. HAUSERMANN, Review, English Studies, October 1955 527125. F. W. DUPEE, 'The Deeds And Dreams Of Yeats', Partisan
Review, Winter 1956 530
Autobiographies (1955)126. ALLAN WADE, 'A Poet Young and Old', Time and Tide, 26
March 1955 534127. L. A. G. STRONG, 'Yeats at His Ease', The London Magazine,
March 1955 537128. DONALD DAVIE, 'Yeats and Pound', The Dublin Magazine,
October-December 1955 , 546
The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats,eds Peter AUt and Russell K. Alspach (1957)
129. THOMAS PARKINSON, 'Contesting a Will', The Kenyon 550
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Review, Winter 1958130. PETER URE, 'Review', English Studies, August 1960 556
Mythologies (1959)131. T. R. HENN, 'A Look into Darkness', New Statesman, 559
11 April 1959
The Senate Speeches ofW. B. Yeats, ed. Donald R. Pearce (1960)132. [DAVID PAUL], 'Poet as Senator', The Times Literary Supple- 562
ment, 22 December 1961133. W. B. STANFORD, 'Yeats in the Irish Senate', Review of 564
English Literature, July 1963
Essays and Introductions (1961)134. JOHN UNTERECKER, Review, Modern Drama, September 572
1962
Essays and Introductions (1961) and Explorations (1961)135. H. R. MacCALLUM, from 'W.B. Yeats: The Shape Changer 574
and His Critics', University of Toronto Quarterly, April 1963
Memoirs, ed. Denis Donoghue (1972)136. JOHN BOLAND, 'Poet's Self-Portrait', Hibernia, 16 February 578
1973137. J O H N O'RIORDAN, 'The Mask of Yeats', Library Review, 580
Spring 1973138. J O H N BRYSON, from 'Unexpurgated Yeats', Books and 584
Bookmen, March 1973
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Volume I: 1865-1895, ed.John Kelly and Eric Domville (assoc. ed.), (1986)
139. TOM PAULIN, 'Dreadful Sentiments', London Review of 587Books, 3 April 1986
140. PHILLIP L. MARCUS, 'Yeats in his Letters: A Review 593Essay', Yeats Annual, 6, London, 1988
Selected Reviews of Plays in Performance
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902 Dublin performance)141. STEPHEN GWYNN, from 'Beginnings of Irish Drama', 605
Irish Literature and Drama in the English Language: A ShortHistory, London, 1936
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The Hour Glass and Cathleen ni Houlihan(May 1903 London performances)
142. [ARTHUR BIGHAM WALKLEY], 'The Irish National 607Theatre' , The Times Literary Supplement, 8 May 1903
The King's Threshold (October 1903 performance)143. ANONYMOUS, 'The Irish National Theatre' , The Freeman's 612
Journal, 8 October 1903
The King's Threshold and Cathleen ni Houlihan(October 1903 performances)
144. JOSEPH HOLLOWAY, from Joseph Holloway's Abbey Theatre: 615A Selection from his Unpublished Journal Impressions of a DublinPlaygoer, eds Robert Hogan and Michael J. O'Neill, Carbon-dale and Edwardsville, 1967
The King's Threshold (April 1904 London performance)145. L. L. L., 'The Poet's Right', T.P.'s Weekly, 8 April 1904 618
On Baile's Strand (December 1904 performance)146. R. M., 'The Abbey Theatre: Irish Players in Irish Plays', 621
The Dublin Evening Mail, 28 December 1904147. [PARTHUR GRIFFITH], from 'All Ireland', The United 624
Irishman, 31 December 1904148. MAURICE JOY, 'Mr Yeats's New Play', The Speaker, 627
7 January 1905
Deirdre (November 1906 Abbey Theatre performance)149. JOSEPH HOLLOWAY, from Joseph Holloway's Abbey Theatre: 629
A Selection from his Unpublished Journal Impressions of a DublinPlaygoer, eds Robert Hogan and Michael J. O'Neill,Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1967
Deirdre (1909 London performance)150. ANONYMOUS, 'Deirdre', Times of India (Bombay), 10 June 631
1909151. MAX BEERBOHM, from 'Irish Players', The Saturday 632
Review, 12 June 1909
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1910 performance)152. ANONYMOUS, Two Reviews, Leeds Mercury, 15 April 1910 634
and Yorkshire Evening News, 15 April 1910
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The Player Queen (1919 performance)153. J[AMES] S[TRACHEY], 'Swinburne And Mr Yeats', The 635
Athenceum, 6 June 1919
The Only Jealousy of Emer (1922 Amsterdam performance)154. ROSELINDE SUPHEERT, from 'Intermezzo: The Dutch 637
History, of The Only Jealousy of Emer', Yeats in Holland: TheReception of the Work of W. B. Yeats in the Netherlands BeforeWorld War Two, Amsterdam, 1995
Purgatory (1938 Abbey Theatre performances)155. UNA ELLIS-FERMOR, 'Dramatic Notes', English, 1938 640156. ANONYMOUS, Four reviews in The Dublin Evening Mail: 641
1. 'Drama Begins with Poets', 11 August 1938;2. 'Mr W. B. Yeats's New Play', 11 August 1938;3. 'Yeats Play Not Understood', 11 August 1938;4. 'Puzzle of the New Play', 12 August 1938
The Unicorn from the Stars (1940 German performance)157. SUSANNE SCHAUP in Liam Miller, The Noble Drama of 651
W. B. Yeats, Dublin and Atlantic Highlands, 1977
Calvary and The Resurrection (1965 Dublin performances)158. JAMES FLANNERY, 'Action and Reaction at the Dublin 653
Theatre Festival', The Dublin Magazine, Autumn/Winter 1966
Yeats plays at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 1965159. MARY O'MALLEY, 'The Dream Itself, Threshold, Autumn 662
1965
Cuchulain Cycle (October 1979 New York performances)160. BARBARA CROSSETTE, 'Off Broadway Offers Yeats and 667
Beckett', The New York Times, 12 October 1979
At the Hawk's Well, The Cat and the Moon, The Dreaming of theBones, and Cathleen ni Houlihan
(1984 Peacock Theatre, Dublin, performances)161. CHARLES HUNTER, 'The Fascination of What's 671
Difficult', The Irish Times, 21 June 1984
Yeats Theatre Festival, 1991162. JOHN DEVITT, 'Art and the Civic Life: A Personal 674
Response to the Yeats International Theatre Festival', Irish-America Magazine, 1993
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