Influence and Confluence Yeats Annual No.17 A Special Number [Hardcover]

The latest in a renowned research-level series, focusing on Yeats' multifarious reading and his iconography. Examining the making of his work - a new unfinished play for dancers is presented - here his influence in Japan via Yone Noguchi and in England and Dorothy Wellesley are explored, together with his legacy via W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney.List of Plates Abbreviations Editorial Board Notes on Contributors Editor's Introduction Acknowledgements and Editorial Information W.B. Yeats and the Vegetable Phoenix; N.Mann The Turbulent Lives of Yeats's Painted Horses; A.Cuda No Dancing: Yone Noguchi in Yeats's Japan; E.Marx Guardians of the Tower and Stream: Yeats's Unfinished Fifth Play for Dancers, 1918-1923; W.K.Chapman Yeats's 'Quattrocento Finger'; D.Roper 'Breaking Bread with the Dead': W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats's Legacy; S.Connolly W.B. Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley; D.Ferrelli 'MASTERING WHAT IS MOST ABSTRACT': A FORUM ON A VISION The Opening and Closing of the Tinctures: An Analysis; R.Ryan Death and the Anti-Self; B.McNamee REVIEWS The Unquiet Ghost: The New Mythologies and the Editing of Yeats's Text in the Twenty-First Century (W.B. Yeats, Mythologies , ed. by Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey); P.L.Marcus W.B.Yeats, The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, Vol IV 1905-1907 , edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard; J.Pethica Ann Saddlemyer, Becoming George: The Life of George Yeats ; C.McDowell W.J. McCormack, Blood Kindred: The Life, the Death, the Politics ; D.Dwan W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire: Manuscript Materials , ed. by Jared Curtis; R.A.Cave W.B. Yeats, Responsibilities: Manuscript Materials , ed. by William H. O'Donnell; W.Van Mierlo W.B. Yeats, The Only Jealousy of Emer and Fighting the Waves: Manuscript Materials , ed. by Steven Winnett; R.A.Cave W.B. Yeats, The Dreaming of the Bones and Calvary: Manuscript Materials , ed. by Wayne K. Chapman; R.A.Cave W.B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems: Manuscript Materials , ed. bln