W.B. Yeats's Robartes-Aherne Writings: Featuring the Making of His Stories of M [Hardcover]

The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne appear throughout the writing of the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, featuring in his poems, short fictions, dialogues and as authorities in notes to his work. Bringing together into one volume published and unpublished writings featuring these two enigmatic figures,W.B. Yeats's Robartes-Aherne Writingstraces their history and the development of Yeats's mystical thought that culminated (twice) in the publication of his visionary workA Vision(1925, 1937).

Including reproductions of manuscript and notebook pages as well as transcriptions and extracts from a wide range of Yeats's mystical writings and substantial commentary and annotation throughout, this book is an essential resource for scholars of Yeats's thought, his stylistic evolution and the esoteric influences on modernist writing in the early 20th century.

Wayne K. Chapmanis Professor Emeritus of English at Clemson University, USA and formerly Executive Editor of Clemson University Press. He is Editor Emeritus of theSouth Carolina Reviewand the author of several books, includingYeats's Poetry in the Making(2010).The editor does a fantastic job of documenting, detailing, and describing the uses, interactions, and character development of these two literary creations throughout Yeatss published and unpublished output, providing the reader with a unique glimpse into the intricate mind of one of the greatest writers in recent history. American Reference Books Annual

Introduction

Part One:1896-1897,The Secret RoseTriptych:Early Tales of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne
1. Rosa Alchemica (1896)
2. The Tables of the Law (1897)
3. The Adoration of the Magi (1897)

Part Two: 1917-1920, Unpublished Dialogues and Extracts: The Resurrection of Robartes and Aherne
1. Imaginary Conversations, The Phases of the Moon, and the Robartes Monologue inThe WlÃ^