The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcast

by Yeats, William Butler

• ISBN13: 9781439150382
• ISBN10: 1439150389
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Scribner

Summary

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume X: Later Articles and Reviewsis part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This first complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes.Later Articles and Reviewsconsists of fifty-four prose pieces published between 1900 and Yeats's death in January 1939 and benefits from the notes and emendations of Yeats scholar Colton Johnson. The pieces collected here are occasional, and they reflect the many interests and engagements of Yeats in his maturity. No longer a reviewer or polemicist, Yeats is an international figure: a senator in the fledgling Irish state, a defining modern poet, a distinguished essayist. And here we have him writing -- with grace, wit, and passion -- on the state of Ireland in the world, on Irish language and Irish literature, on his artistic contemporaries, on the Abbey Theater, on divorce, on censorship, on his evolution as a poet and dramatist, on his own poetry.Volume Xalso includes texts of ten radio programs Yeats broadcast between 1931 and 1937. This is not only the first collection but also the first printing of Yeats's radio work, which constitutes the largest previously uncollected body of his writings and possibly the most important to remain largely unstudied. Carefully assembled from manuscripts, typescripts, broadcast scripts, and fragmentary recordings, the programs range from a scripted interview on contemporary issues to elaborate stagings of his own and others' poetry. One of the radio programs is presented in an appendix complete with the commissioned musical score that set Yeats's poetry to music, Yeats's own emendations on the BBC broadcast script, and the diacritical notes with which the broadcast reader indicated Yeats's interpretive instructions.Here, then, is seasoned Yeats, writing and speaking vigorously and with keen personal insight about the modern age and his place in it.

Author Biography

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland’s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface

Abbreviations

Later Articles and Reviews

Noble and Ignoble Loyalties

The United Irishman, 21 April 19002

Irish Fairy Beliefs

The Speaker, 14 July 19003

Irish Witch Doctors

The Fortnightly Review, September 19004

Irish Language and Irish Literature

The Leader, 1 September 19005

A Postscript to a Forthcoming Book of Essays by Various Writers

All Ireland Review, 1 December 19006

The United Irishman, 9 November 19017

Literature and the Conscience

The United Irishman, 7 December 19018

Egyptian Plays

The Star, 23 January 19029

Away

The Fortnightly Review, April 190210

Mr Yeats's New Play

The United Irishman, 5 April 190211

An Ancient Conversation

All Ireland Review, 5, 12 April 190212

The Acting at St Teresa's Hall

The United Irishman, 12 April 190213

The Acting at St Teresa's Hall II

The United Irishman, 26 April 190214

The Freedom of the Theatre

The United Irishman, 1 November 190215

A Canonical Book

The Bookman, May 190316

The Irish National Theatre and Three Sorts of Ignorance

The United Irishman, 24 October 190317

Emmet the Apostle of Irish Liberty

The Gaelic American, 5 March 190418

America and the Arts

The Metropolitan Magazine, April 190519

British Association Visit to the Abbey Theatre

British Association Visit, Abbey Theatre, Special Programme, 4, 8 September 190820

The Art of the Theatre

The New Age, 16 June 191021

The Theatre of BeautyHarper's Weekly, 11 November 191122

The Story of the Irish Players

Sunday Record-Herald, 4 February 191223

The Polignac Prize

Royal Society of Literature, The Academic Committee: Addresses of Reception, 191424

New Ireland, 17 July 191525

Sir Hugh Lane's Pictures

The Observer, January 21, 191726

Major Robert Gregory

The Observer, February 17, 191827

The Irish Dramatic Movement

The Voice of Ireland, 192328

Nobel Prize Acceptance

Les Prix Nobel en 1923, 192429

The Irish Times, January 19, 192430

A Memory of Synge

The Irish Statesman, July 5, 192431

Compulsory Gaelic

The Irish Statesman, August 2, 192432

Royal Irish Society Awards at the Tailteann Festival

The Transatlantic Review, November 192433

An Undelivered Speech

The Irish Statesman, March 14, 192534

Divorce

The Irish Times, June 12, 192535

The Child and the State

The Irish Statesman, December 5, 12, 192536

The Need for Audacity of Thought

The Dial, February 192637

A Defence of the Abbey Theatre

The Dublin Magazine, April-June 192638

Memorial to the Late T. W. Lyster[pamphlet for subscribers], June 192639

The Censorship and St Thomas Aquinas

The Irish Statesman, September 22, 192840

The Irish Censorship

The Spectator, September 29, 192841

Oedipus the King

BBC Broadcast, September 8, 193142

Reading of Poems

BBC Broadcast, September 8, 193143

Ireland, 1921-1931

The Spectator, January 30, 193244

Poems About Women

BBC Broadcast, April 10, 193245

Plain Man's

Oedipus

The New York Times, January 15, 193346

The Great Blasket

The Spectator, June 2, 193347

The Growth of a Poet

The Listener, April 4, 193448

The Irish Literary Movement

Radio Eireann Broadcast, October 12, 193549

Abbey Theatre Broadcast

BBC Broadcast, February 1, 193750

In the Poet's Pub

BBC Broadcast, April 2, 193751

In the Poet's Parlour

BBC Broadcast, April 22, 193752

My Own Poetry

BBC Broadcast, July 3, 193753

My Own Poetry Again

BBC Broadcast, October 29, 193754

I Became an Author

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