Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Contexts and Concepts
7. 1. Yeats, William Morris and the Aesthetics of the Everyday 17
8. 2. Yeats and The Savoy: French Decadence and Irish Poetry 36
9. 3. The Institutionalisation of Art in Dublin: Yeats, Sociability and Transnationalism 53
10. 4. The Virtual Archive of Anima Mundi 67
11. 5. On the Scale of Art and the Aesthetics of Difficulty: Rereading ‘Lapis Lazuli’ as Ecological Critique 83
12. 6. Knowing Ruskin’s Cat: Yeats and the Proper Names of the Aesthetic 99
13. 7. Cuchulain the Cowboy: A Tale of Yeats and the Wild West 112
14. Part II Visual and Material Culture
15. 8. Yeats, Blake and the Romanticism of the Arts and Crafts Movement 129
16. 9. Yeats and Edwardian Languages of Art 146
17. 10. The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and the Limits of Portraiture 159
18. 11. A ‘cacophony of sardine tins’: Yeats and Modern Art 177
19. 12. Yeats, Byzantine Art and Celtic Occultism 193
20. 13. A Swedish Bounty: Yeats, Public Art and European Nationalisms in the Free State 208
21. 14. Preservation and Proportion in ‘The Municipal Gallery Revisited’ 224
22. 15. Late Yeats, Print and Symbolic Book Design: The Case of Responsibilities 238
23. 16. Illustrating the 1935 and 1937 Cuala Press Broadsides 252
24. 17. Poetry, Painting and Posterity: Yeats as Example and Burden 268
25. Part III Performance and Sound
26. 18. The ‘World That Sang and Listened’: Yeats and Florence Farr’s ‘New Art’ of Verse Speaking 285
27. 19. ‘Music had driven their wits astray’: Raftery, Nietzsche and the Applied Arts 306
28. 20. Yeats and Wagner: The Countess Cathleen and Other Plays 328
29. 21. ‘We must have a new kind of scenic art’: Yeats’s Set Design and Stagecraft 345
30. 22. Yeats, Gender-Bending and the Art of Transvestism 361
31. 23. The Dramaturgy of Movement: Choreographic Writing in The Dreaming of the Bones 376
32. 24. Choreographic Collaborations: Yeats and Ninette de Valois 394
33. 25. ‘Lose my words in patterns of sound’: Music in the Dance Plays for Ninette de Valois 409
34. 26. Yeats’s Common Measure: The Later Ballads 423
35. Notes on Contributors 442
36. Index 446