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The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts

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Published/Copyright: 2024

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W. B. Yeats was not only a poet but also a cultural revolutionary. A restless collaborator, he fostered countless artistic enterprises, from the Abbey Theatre to the Cuala Press, and pursued various inter-artistic media and forums for his work. From childhood co-creations with his siblings to the arresting combination of sound and movement in his final play, The Death of Cuchulain, his work also repeatedly addresses and incorporates music, dance, and the visual, material and theatrical arts with remarkable intensity. For him, literature was a vital thing that engaged, in one form or another, all the senses. This volume’s newly commissioned chapters analyse afresh such engagements. Bringing together scholars of literature, aesthetics, cultural history and specialists in drama, music, dance and the visual arts, they provide a broad range of historical, conceptual, and disciplinary approaches and perspectives.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Charles I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson and Tom Walker

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Part I Contexts and Concepts
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1. Yeats, William Morris and the Aesthetics of the Everyday
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Lucy Hartley and John Whittier-Ferguson

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2. Yeats and The Savoy: French Decadence and Irish Poetry
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Matthew Creasy

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3. The Institutionalisation of Art in Dublin: Yeats, Sociability and Transnationalism
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Kathryn Milligan

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4. The Virtual Archive of Anima Mundi
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Charles I. Armstrong

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5. On the Scale of Art and the Aesthetics of Difficulty: Rereading ‘Lapis Lazuli’ as Ecological Critique
83
Barry Sheils

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6. Knowing Ruskin’s Cat: Yeats and the Proper Names of the Aesthetic
99
Christopher Morash

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7. Cuchulain the Cowboy: A Tale of Yeats and the Wild West
112
Margaret Mills Harper

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Part II Visual and Material Culture
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8. Yeats, Blake and the Romanticism of the Arts and Crafts Movement
129
Colin Trodd

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9. Yeats and Edwardian Languages of Art
146
Sophie Hatchwell

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10. The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and the Limits of Portraiture
159
Tom Walker

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11. A ‘cacophony of sardine tins’: Yeats and Modern Art
177
Hugh Haughton

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12. Yeats, Byzantine Art and Celtic Occultism
193
J. B. Bullen

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13. A Swedish Bounty: Yeats, Public Art and European Nationalisms in the Free State
208
Jack Quin

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14. Preservation and Proportion in ‘The Municipal Gallery Revisited’
224
Adam Hanna

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15. Late Yeats, Print and Symbolic Book Design: The Case of Responsibilities
238
David Holdeman

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16. Illustrating the 1935 and 1937 Cuala Press Broadsides
252
Angela Griffith

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17. Poetry, Painting and Posterity: Yeats as Example and Burden
268
Rui Carvalho Homem

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18. The ‘World That Sang and Listened’: Yeats and Florence Farr’s ‘New Art’ of Verse Speaking
285
Isabelle Stuart

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19. ‘Music had driven their wits astray’: Raftery, Nietzsche and the Applied Arts
306
Adrian Paterson

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20. Yeats and Wagner: The Countess Cathleen and Other Plays
328
Michael McAteer

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21. ‘We must have a new kind of scenic art’: Yeats’s Set Design and Stagecraft
345
Seán Golden

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22. Yeats, Gender-Bending and the Art of Transvestism
361
Zsuzsanna Balázs

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23. The Dramaturgy of Movement: Choreographic Writing in The Dreaming of the Bones
376
Melinda Szűts

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24. Choreographic Collaborations: Yeats and Ninette de Valois
394
Megan Girdwood

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25. ‘Lose my words in patterns of sound’: Music in the Dance Plays for Ninette de Valois
409
Mark Fitzgerald

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26. Yeats’s Common Measure: The Later Ballads
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Matthew Campbell

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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts

Overview

About this book

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Yeats, William Morris and the Aesthetics of the Everyday

2. Yeats and The Savoy: French Decadence and Irish Poetry

3. The Institutionalisation of Art in Dublin: Yeats, Sociability and Transnationalism

4. The Virtual Archive of Anima Mundi

5. On the Scale of Art and the Aesthetics of Difficulty: Rereading ‘Lapis Lazuli’ as Ecological Critique

6. Knowing Ruskin’s Cat: Yeats and the Proper Names of the Aesthetic

7. Cuchulain the Cowboy: A Tale of Yeats and the Wild West

8. Yeats, Blake and the Romanticism of the Arts and Crafts Movement

9. Yeats and Edwardian Languages of Art

10. The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and the Limits of Portraiture

11. A ‘cacophony of sardine tins’: Yeats and Modern Art

12. Yeats, Byzantine Art and Celtic Occultism

13. A Swedish Bounty: Yeats, Public Art and European Nationalisms in the Free State

14. Preservation and Proportion in ‘The Municipal Gallery Revisited’

15. Late Yeats, Print and Symbolic Book Design: The Case of Responsibilities

16. Illustrating the 1935 and 1937 Cuala Press Broadsides

17. Poetry, Painting and Posterity: Yeats as Example and Burden

18. The ‘World That Sang and Listened’: Yeats and Florence Farr’s ‘New Art’ of Verse Speaking

19. ‘Music had driven their wits astray’: Raftery, Nietzsche and the Applied Arts

20. Yeats and Wagner: The Countess Cathleen and Other Plays

21. ‘We must have a new kind of scenic art’: Yeats’s Set Design and Stagecraft

22. Yeats, Gender-Bending and the Art of Transvestism

23. The Dramaturgy of Movement: Choreographic Writing in The Dreaming of the Bones

24. Choreographic Collaborations: Yeats and Ninette de Valois

25. ‘Lose my words in patterns of sound’: Music in the Dance Plays for Ninette de Valois

26. Yeats’s Common Measure: The Later Ballads

Notes on Contributors

Index

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