Contents

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Editorial Board

Notes on the Contributors

Editor’s Introduction

Acknowledgements and Editorial Information

ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF A NORMAN JEFFARES

Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares 11 August 1920-1 June 2005

CHRISTOPHER RUSH

From the Window of the House

SEAMUS HEANEY

Lips and Ships, Peers and Tears: Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy:

WARWICK GOULD

Yeats and the Colours of Poetry

TERENCE BROWN

Yeats’s Shakespeare: ‘There is a Good Deal of my Father in it’

DENIS DONOGHUE

What Raftery Built

JOSEPH M. HASSETT

A Portrait of George Yeats

ANN SADDLEMYER

The Tower: Yeats’s Anti-Modernist Monument

RONALD SCHUCHARD

Vacillation: Between What and What?

HELEN VENDLER

W. B. Yeats and the Creative Process: The Example of ‘Her Triumph’

PHILLIP L. MARCUS

The Cold Heaven

DEIRDRE TOOMEY

Question Me Again: Reflections of W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney

NEIL CORCORAN

A Select Checklist of the Writings of Alexander Norman Jeffares (1920-2005)

COLIN SMYTHE

‘MASTERING WHAT IS MOST ABSTRACT’: A FORUM ON A VISION

A Vision (1925): A Review Essay

NEIL MANN

Yeats and the New Physics

MATTHEW M. DeFORREST

REVIEWS

‘A Law Indifferent to Blame or Praise’: W. B. Yeats, The Tower (1928): Manuscript Materials, edited by Richard J. Finneran, with Jared Curtis and Ann Saddlemyer

WAYNE K. CHAPMAN

Denis Donoghue, On Eloquence

SANDRA CLARK

Nicholas Grene, Yeats’s Poetic Codes

JOSEPH M. HASSETT

W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock Tower and A Full Moon in March: Manuscript Materials, edited by Richard Allen Cave

NICHOLAS GRENE

Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form

DENIS DONOGHUE

Ronald Schuchard, The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts

MATTHEW CAMPBELL

Fiorenzo Fantaccini, W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana

K. P. S. JOCHUM

Margaret Mills Harper, Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats

DENIS DONOGHUE

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED