Index

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Abbey Experimental Theatre563–64

Abbey Theatre139
broadcast498–500, 502
dance581
early years555–58
Gregory/Yeats collaboration59, 65–66, 69, 70, 554–55, 556, 558–59
Lyric Theatre562–63
Noh528
patent on plays65
Peacock space564
Playboy of the Western World riots64–65, 140, 222, 249
revolution218
state subsidy279
Jack Yeats plays103, 563–64
W. B. Yeats Festivals553–54, 563–67

Abrams, M. H.411–12

Achebe, Chinua317–18, 327–28

‘Acre of Grass, An’ (Yeats)163–64, 180–81

‘Adam’s Curse’ (Yeats)483, 595, 625, 627, 631

‘Adoration of the Magi, The’ (Yeats)615

Adorno, Theodor648–49, 649n.26

AE. See Russell, George

aestheticism400–1, 405–10, 436–37

aesthetics
ascent204, 207–8, 209–10, 215
dance581–82
fascist236–37, 244, 247–48
history262–63
Jack Yeats107, 111–12
Japanese524
’mask’152, 153, 159, 162–64
modernism306–7, 435, 436–37
New Critics284–85
‘perfect courtier’152–53, 158, 159, 163–64
poetic149
printing447, 453, 463
Romanticism399
unities152–53, 154, 155, 159, 160, 163–64, 165–66
visual–verbal links154–55, 157–58, 164

Africa, relation of Yeats’s work with321–28

Africanist paradigm319–20

Africanus, Leo. See al–Wazzan/al–Asad

Ah Well (Jack Yeats)101

Alastor (Shelley)401

‘Alastor’ (Yeats)409

Alighieri, Dante149
Christendom156, 176–78, 180
comedic607–8, 609
Eliot156, 167–68, 169, 176–77, 180–81, 285–86
exile161–62, 179–80
importance to Yeats149, 152–53, 156, 157–58, 160–62, 163–64, 167, 168–70, 172, 176–81, 182–83
literary exemplar152, 155, 160
mask152–53, 164, 179–80
Shakespeare168, 169, 170–71, 172, 176, 180

All India Radio495–96

Allingham, William404–5

‘Alphabet, The’ (Yeats)384–85

al–Wazzan/al–Asad (‘Leo Africanus’)311–12, 316

Amaranthers, The (Jack Yeats)107–8, 110–12

Ameritus spirit97

‘Among Schoolchildren’ (Yeats)277, 280, 352–53, 599, 600

‘Anashuya and Vijaya’ (Yeats)342–43

‘Ancestral Houses’ (Yeats)230–31, 630, 631

ancient Ireland115
‘bards’116, 120–21, 132, 190–91, 196
folklore vs history116–18
pre-Christianity116, 117–18

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland (Wilde)16–17

Anglo–Irish
Ascendency223
English language168–69, 174–75
identities7–8, 140, 143
Rising of 1798188

Anima Mundi (‘world soul’)303, 385–86, 655–56

Antheil, George487–89, 581

anti-Catholicism139–40, 142–43, 145, 188, 189, 250–51, 639–40

apartheid197–98, 326

Arab Muslim culture339–42, 349

‘Are You Content?’ (Yeats)650–51, 652–53

Ariosto, Ludovico161–62

Armstrong, Laura507–10, 513, 514–15, 517, 520, 521–22

Arnold, Matthew217, 218–19, 352–54, 363, 402–3

‘Art and Aristocracy’ (Hone)

‘Art and Ideas’ (Yeats)157–58, 159, 170–71, 405–6

Arts and Crafts Movement46–47, 453, 455, 476

‘Arts Lough, Glenmore, Co. Wicklow’ (Greene)54

ascent, aesthetics of207–10, 215

Ashbery, John602–4

Ash Wednesday (Eliot)167–68, 180–81

astronomy364–66, 377

‘At Stratford-on-Avon’ (Yeats)172–74
Irish National Theatre173

At the Hawk’s Well (Yeats)
collaboration/co–writing with Lady Gregory507
dance570–71, 575–76, 580, 581, 584
gender516
Japan reception535–38
non-Aristotelian521–22
staging489, 531, 536–38, 557, 561, 562f, 567

‘At Algeciras-A Meditation Upon Death’ (Yeats)356–57

Auden, W. H.
admirers313
comedy609
death of Yeats284–85, 287, 289
MacNeice287
Matheson650–51
1930s250–52
occult378
perfection597
‘silly’609, 616–17, 649–50

Augustine, Henry464–65, 466–68

authorship
decentering372
joint63–65
vs. mediumship320

Autobiographies (Yeats)5, 9–10, 12–15, 45, 48–49, 172, 175, 351–52, 423, 502–3

autobiographies by Yeats
drafts8–13
Irish tradition8
life-writing3–4, 5–6, 10, 13–14, 437
private vs. public3–6, 13
self-making3
‘traditional doctrine’175

automatic writing
Ameritus spirit97
fictional accounts91
Leo Africanus spirit311, 314–21
mirror-writing606
plays391–92
spirit production of380
Elizabeth Radcliffe314–15, 319, 379n.7, 663
science361–62
Vision178–79, 380–81, 384–85
George Hyde-Lees Yeats88, 89, 94, 96, 98n.46, 178–79, 369–70, 380–81, 386, 512, 606, 619

Autobiography, The (Yeats)9–10

‘Autumn of the Body, The’ (Yeats)170

aviation. See flying; See flight

‘Baile and Aillinn’ (Yeats)442

Barnes, George498–99, 501

Battle, Mary293, 294–95

BBC, Yeats broadcasts on493–96

Beardsley, Aubrey408, 447–48, 451, 452, 459

‘Beautiful Lofty Things’ (Yeats)67

Beckett, Samuel
comedic619
Italianist176–77
late style643
later work648–49
stagecraft105
Yeats influence176–77, 569, 618–19
Jack Yeats105, 110–11

Ben Bulben (mountain)
grave of Yeats40
masculinity638

Bengali language299

Benson, Frank555–57

Between the Lines (Stallworthy)643–44

Biographia Literaria (Coleridge)265, 290–91

biographies of Yeats69–70, 314–15, 320, 414–15
Ellman87–88, 89, 318

Foster3–4, 12n.47, 123, 314, 658
Hone88, 287, 628
George Yeats role88–89

Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche)580, 581–82

Bishop Berkeley (Hone and Rossi)245

‘Bishop Berkeley’ (Yeats)171–72

Black and Tans69

‘Black Tower, The’ (Yeats)124–25, 641–42, 654

Blake, William
‘Forgiveness of Sin’172–73
illustrations402, 447, 451
‘internal Church’/symbolism156, 177
mythology386–87
Romanticism400–5
spirituality378–79
Yeats on47–48

Blavatsky, Madame Helena16–17, 18–19, 21, 517

‘Blind Man Flies, The’ (Hicks)205–6

Blomfield, Reginald453

‘Blood and the Moon’ (Yeats)142–43, 234, 639

Blue Raincoat theatre company553–54, 565–69

‘Blueshirt’ fascist movement144, 174–75, 231–32, 239, 250–51, 254–55, 283

Boccaccio, Giovanni178–79

book design
abstract446–47
covers446–47, 451, 456–57, 459–60, 461f
frontispiece79–80, 455, 457–58
illustration446
modern452–53
symbolism446–47, 448–52
‘total books’447, 448
typography454–55

Book of the Courtier, The (Il Libro del Cortegiano) (Castiglione)149, 150–52, 157–58, 161–64
genre150–52, 162–64
‘Renaissance self-fashioning’163–64
translations150–51, 157–58
‘wit and beauty’149, 150–52

‘Book of the Great Dhoul and Hanrahan the Red, The’ (Yeats)424–25, 426–28

Book of the Rhymers’ Club, The (Mathews)50–57

book printing
‘book beautiful’453, 454, 474–76, 479–82, 485–86, 491
Cuala452–56
Dun Emer453, 455
fine452–54, 465–66
hand455

‘Bounty of Sweden, The’ (Yeats)159–60

Boyle, William65–66

Bradley, Katharine520

Brecht, Bertolt518, 562

Brehon laws271

Brett, George72–73, 75, 77–81, 78n.34

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad343

British Women’s Printing Society470

Broad Sheets, Cuala Press series455–56

Broadsides, Cuala Press series455, 456, 650–51

‘Broken Gates of Death, The’ (Yeats)420

‘Bronze Head, A’ (Yeats)259

Bruno, Giordano360

Buddha, the332–33

Bullen, A. H.76–81, 79n.36

‘Burden of Easter Vigil, A’ (Plarr)56

Burke, Edmund217n.6, 220, 223, 224–25, 227, 228–29, 231–32, 234, 412–13

Burnham, Barbara494–96

Bushrui, Suheil323–24

Butler, Nicholas73–74

Butoh performance542

Byrne, James73–74

Byron, George Gordon (Lord Byron)48, 401, 408, 409, 411–12

‘By the Statue of King Charles the First at Charing Cross’ (Johnson)52, 54

Byzantine art149, 152, 164, 334–39, 446–47, 456–60

Byzantium place name339

‘Byzantium’ (Yeats)460

Caesar, Julius164, 165, 243–44, 260–62, 264, 265, 290–91

‘Caesarism’244, 374

Callimachus335

Calvary (Yeats)391–92, 564

Cantos, The (Pound)307–9, 524–26

Carleton, William22–23

‘Carmelite Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration’ (Dowson)54

Castiglione, Baldassare149, 150–52, 161–62
and Dante152–53, 156–58
Duchess of Urbino150–51, 158, 162, 165–66
Francesco Maria’s deposition150–51, 161–62
sprezzatura (‘nonchalance’)157–58, 163–64
Yeats158, 159–60, 162–63, 164, 165–66

Castiglione (Hanning and Rosand)151–52

Castle of Heroes, abandoned project414–15, 417

‘Cat and the Moon, The’ (Yeats)394, 609–12

Cat and the Moon, The (Yeats)
Noh528, 534–35, 538
poetics394
recycled as poem609–10
sadomasochism539–40, 544, 546, 548
staging564, 567

Cat and the Moon and Other Certain Poems, The (Yeats)92

Cathleen ni Houlihan (Gregory and Yeats)
blood sacrifice190, 194–95, 197
collaboration/co-writing49, 59, 63–65, 507, 512, 516
modernism439–40
relationship between art and historical action194–95
staging72–73, 564
revolutionary violence216–17, 218–19
transformation of the Old Woman194–84

Catholicism. See also anti-Catholicism
death422
dominant638–39
masculinity638, 639–40
materialism628n.14

Catholics
audience563
conflict49, 54
death of Yeats286–87
populist conservatism250–51

Cavalcanti, Guido178–79

‘Celtic Element in Literature, The’ (Yeats)578–79

Celticism26, 27, 332–33

Celtic Ireland (Bryant)271–72

Celtic Mystery religion414–15, 421, 423, 425

Celtic Revival217–18, 302–3, 449–50, 455, 459

Celtic Studies116, 117–18, 122–23

Celtic supernaturalism19–21, 27

Celtic Twilight287–88, 420

Celtic Twilight (Yeats)34–35, 60–61, 658–59

Celts, the
death417
law and literature271
migrant332
popular view27
resistance334

Certain Noble Plays of Japan (Pound)526, 530, 532

Charles Kegan Paul (publisher)43–44, 446–47, 448

Charles Scribner’s Sons (publisher)646, 657, 658

Charles Stewart Parnell (O’Shea/Parnell)140–41

Chatterjee, Mohini19, 342–43, 350

Cheney-Coker, Syl326–28

Cheshire Cheese, the (inn)51, 52–53, 55, 57

Chesterton, G. K.44–45

China, relation of Yeats’s work to344–47

‘Choice, The’ (Yeats)593–94, 597, 604, 605

Christ168–69, 178, 392–93, 532, 594–95, 601

Christianity
divided49
Islam340–41
occult26–27
orientalism349
Swedenborgian378–79
theosophy55–56
Victorianism49–50, 55–57
Vision389, 392–93

Church of Ireland35

‘Circus Animals’ Desertion, The’ (Yeats)44–45, 653, 654–55

Clarke, Austin561

Clarke, Harry456–57, 458–59

Claudian621

Cleena/Cleona figure426–28

‘Coat, A’ (Yeats)591–92, 599, 604

Coates, Dorothy80

Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.453, 454, 455–56, 474–76, 485, 491

Cochran, Bourke73

Cockney rhyming slang618

Coiscéim (publisher)327–28

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor265, 290–91, 410, 411–12

collected editions657–58, 664

Collected Poems (Yeats)89–90, 643–44

Collected Plays (Yeats)250

Collected Poems (Yeats)89–90, 250, 643–44

Collected Works (Yeats)10, 76–81, 439, 442

Collis, Margot Ruddock650–51

coloniality313

colonization304, 348–49 See also decolonization

comedy
bathos621, 622–23
obscenity615–23
poetry of Yeats608–13, 614–23
Swift607–8, 621–23
vs. tragedy611, 622–23, 643
‘turn’611–13
versions607–9
Vision606–8

Comedy of Sighs, The (Todhunter)516–17

‘Come Gather Round Me Parnellites’ (Yeats)146

‘Come Thunder’ (Okigbo)324

Commedia of Dante156, 160–61, 167–68, 170–71, 176–77, 178–79, 182, 183, 607–8, 609

‘Commentary on a Parnellite at Parnell’s Funeral’ (Yeats).238–39, 241–44 See also ‘A Parnellite at Parnell’s Funeral.’

Commonweal, The46–47

Comte, August48–49, 50

Connolly, James193, 196, 233, 294–95

Conrad, Joseph71–72

continuing bonds theory415–17

Convito of Dante178–79

‘Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931’ (Yeats)
form596, 604
Gregory59, 68
Romanticism399–401, 402–3, 407

‘Coole Park, 1929’ (Yeats)59, 68, 165–66, 209–10

Cooper, Bryan364

Cooper, Edith520

Cooper, Edward Joshua364–65

Coriolanus (Shakespeare)172, 174–75

Cosgrave, W. T.202, 250–51, 269, 279

Cosmic Religion (Einstein)363, 427

Countess Cathleen, The (Yeats)
Gregory63, 508
queer situations514–15
ritual427
staging508, 553–54, 560, 563

Countess Kathleen, The (Yeats)512

Country of the Young, The (Yeats)63

‘courtly images’149, 154–55, 161, 162–63

Craig, Gordon556–57, 573

Crane, Walter450–51

‘Crazed Girl, A’ (Yeats)650–51

‘Crazy Jane grown old looks at the Dancers’ (Yeats)253

‘Crazy Jane Reproved’ (Yeats)253

‘Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop’ (Yeats)257, 621

‘Crisis of Poetry, The’ (Mallarmé)433

Croker, Thomas Crofton18, 22–23

Crossways (Yeats)420

Cruikshank, George447–48

Cuala Industries
book design446–47, 452–57, 463
embroidery46–47, 96, 483–85
family business101, 464–66, 468, 469, 470–71, 491

publishing and printing92–93, 106, 238–39, 241–42, 435, 439, 444, 464–65, 471, 643–44, 649–50, 653–54, 655, 660
revived491
women creators464–65, 466–71

Cuchulain (Cú Chulainn)
avatar for Yeats115–16, 183
death115–16, 118–22, 183
Emer120–21
Fand123–24
filicide118–20
heroic figure115–16, 118, 132–33, 174–75
non-normative masculinity541–42
Post Office293–95

‘Cuchulain Comforted’ (Yeats)121–22, 124, 182–83, 491, 625, 640–42, 654–55

Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory)118–19, 120–21

‘Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea’ (Yeats)118–19

‘Curse of Cromwell, The’ (Yeats)253

Cutting of an Agate, The (Yeats)442–43

Dáil, the233

da Montefeltro, Federico150–51, 161

da Montefeltro, Guidobaldo (Duke of Urbino)148–49, 150–51

dance
ceremony578–82
choreography578, 580, 581–82, 584–85
Emer291
impersonality574, 576, 577, 578–79, 581–82, 584–85
Noh528–29, 578, 580–81, 582–84
symbol571–77
in Yeats’s writing570–71, 649–51

‘Dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick, The’ (Yeats)595

Dandy Dolls, The (Fitzmaurice)553

d’Annunzio, Gabriele239

‘Dante’ (Eliot)167–68

‘Darkling Thrush, The’ (Hardy)43

Darwin, Charles48–49, 50, 351–52, 360

d’Assier, Adolphe25

Day, Jeffery210

death. See also death of Yeats
‘continuing bonds’415–17, 428
death drive281–82, 288, 290–92, 291n.31, 294–95
Easter Rising287, 288, 293–95
folklore118–19, 120–22, 417, 422–23, 426–28
moment of289–92
occult414–15, 418–28
poetry of Yeats420–24
short fiction of Yeats424–28
theatrum mortis420, 428
threshold287, 290, 291, 644, 654

‘Death of Cuchulain, The’ (Yeats)118–19

Death of Cuchulain, The (Yeats)120–21
dance574–75
late style652–54
Noh534
publication653–54, 661–62
singing294–95
staging564
threshold291

Death of Synge, The (Yeats)9–10

death of Yeats
epitaph281–82, 283, 288n.24, 293, 621, 654
Gonne281, 283, 287–88
public responses284, 286–87, 289
threshold644, 654

de Blácam, Aodh287

Decadence400–1, 405, 407–9, 436–37, 449

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)337–38

Decline of the West, The (Spengler)244, 374, 377

decolonization313, 317–18, 323, 348–49

‘Dedication of “Irish Tales”’ (Yeats)52

Degeneration (Nordau)357–58

Deirdre (Yeats)80, 494–96, 545–46, 556–57, 564

de la Mare, Walter498–99

Deliverer, The (Gregory)556–57

de Man, Paul599

de Medici, Cosimo148, 161–62

Descrittione dell’Africa, La (‘Giovan Leoni Africanus’)311–12

de Valois, Ninette557, 572, 575–76, 581, 582, 584

Dial, the Figure 28.1429–31, 433, 435

‘Dialogue of Self and Soul’ (Yeats)344–45, 346, 392–95

Diarmuid and Grainne (Yeats)554–56

Discoveries (Yeats)384

discursive possession314, 319–20

Dolmetsch, Arnold465, 486–87

‘Double Vision of Michael Robartes, The’ (Yeats)391–92

‘Dove or Swan’ (Yeats)175

Doves Press453, 454, 455, 466–67

Dowden, Edward172–73, 224, 411–12

Dowden, John48–49, 401

Dowson, Ernest54

drama
Greek521
Japanese523
‘moment of intense life’174
nationalism404
orientation513–14
plot510, 521
Shakespearean174–76, 181
tragedy174–75, 181, 182

drama of Yeats
Aristotelian521–22
broadcast494–96

ceremony578–82
collaboration507
comedic elements609–12
corporeality542–43

dance570
dramaturgy523, 526, 528–29, 534, 568, 578–79
magic512, 514, 517–22
Noh523
plot510–13
poetry of Yeats442, 442n.61, 554
protagonists513
queer desire507, 514–17
sadomasochism539

symbolism571–77
verse401
Vision395–96

Dramatis Personae (Yeats)9–10

Dreaming of the Bones, The (Yeats)
Noh528, 533
Pound246
staging563–64

‘Dream of Death, A’ (Yeats)414–15

‘Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety, A’ (Yeats)652

Dubliners (Joyce)140

Dublin Hermetic Society18–19, 314–15

Dublin Metropolitan School of Art32, 352–53, 447

Dublin Strike184, 187

Dublin University Review342–43, 515

Dukes and Poets in Ferrara (Gardner)158

Dulac, Edmund249, 375, 386, 446–47, 489, 498–99, 557, 561

Dunciad, The (Pope)621

Dun Emer
division468
embroidery464–65, 467, 482–90
family business464–65, 469–70
feminist enterprise470
illustration453
publishing/printing435, 453, 454–55, 456, 464–65, 467, 471–82
women creators466–71
W. B. Yeats’s role469

‘Dying Cuchulain’ (Sheppard)120–21, 294–95, 294n.40

Early Memories (J.B. Yeats)11

East Asia, relation of Yeats’s work with344–47, 349

‘Easter, 1916’ (Yeats)
comedy611, 612–13
death415–16
delayed publication197
form as date191
imagery193–94, 641–42
locality191–92
MacSwiney hunger strike225–26, 326
modern responses197–98
naming of the dead193, 194, 196–97
representation of event184–87, 190–91, 196
revolution218–19, 220–21, 227, 234–35
rhythm267
September 25 1916191, 192

‘Easter, 1989’ (Murray)197–98, 325–26

Eastern philosophy
folklore16–17
science359–60, 361–62

Easter Rising
deaths287, 288, 293–95
executed leaders608
General Post Office (GPO)190, 191–92
historiography195–96
Kilmainham Gaol191–92
letter on70
participants/heroes190, 193, 196–97
play vs. proclamation195–97
Plow and the Stars279
political responses190–91, 192
Proclamation of Independence612–13
revolution218–19, 221–22
street theatre195–96, 197
surprising Yeats218–19
tragic611

ecocriticism367–68, 376

Eddington, Arthur351–52, 357–58, 359–60, 365

editing
correspondence664–65
European313
occult material663–64
scholarly657
by George Yeats88, 89–90, 89n.16, 654, 661
by W.B. Yeats5–6, 13–14, 18–19, 23, 59

Edward VIII639–40

‘Ego Dominus Tuus’ (Yeats)156–58, 163–64, 171, 176–78, 180–81, 317–18, 411

Einstein, Albert351–52, 360, 363

Einsteinian revolution351–52, 361, 362, 363, 365–66

Elfin Music (Waite)23–24

Eliot, T. S.152, 153–54, 156, 167–70, 171, 176–77, 180–81
on Blake177, 178
broadcast499–500
content602
dance584–85
death of Yeats285–86, 289
Dial430–31
India343
Noh524
science354–55
tradition152
Yeats’s influence168

Ellis, Edwin John45, 448, 665

Elvery, Beatrice483–84

Emer291, 466–67

Enforcement of Law Bill 1923278

English language
African writers321–28
global literary vernacular304–6
Irish literature310

English Renaissance148, 159

entropy357–58

‘Epitaph, An’ (Yeats)52–53

erotic, the52–53, 95, 258, 284, 292, 342, 362, 409, 509–10, 516–17, 539–40, 543, 544, 550–52, 576–77, 651

Esoteric Buddhism (Sinnett)18–19

esoteric prose379–83

Ethiopia Unbound (Casely Hayford)310

Eurocentrism336–37

Evergreen magazine449–50

Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution246–49

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (Yeats)18, 22, 27, 125

Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (Croker)18, 22–23

‘Fairy Song, A’ (Yeats)52

fairy tales and lore3

‘Falling of the Leaves, The’ (Yeats)43–44

‘family love’228–30

Farr, Florence
collaboration465, 508, 514–15, 521–22
correspondence6
embroidery486–87
gender non-conforming516–17
Golden Dawn18–19
Quinn76
sexual radical540
shared vision520

fascism
aesthetic236–37, 244, 247–48
Blueshirts250–51, 254–55
cult of violence288
Italian236–42, 243, 246–49
metaphysical aspect239–40, 243
proto-374, 375–76
thought and action244
totalizing iconography of249
Yeats’s changing view of246–49

‘Father Gilligan’ (Yeats)52, 56

Fay, Frank and William555–56

Felkin, Robert W.314–15

Fell, Herbert Granville449–50, 452, 455

Fellowship of the Rosy Cross23–24

feminism
criticism465–66
enterprise470
sexual roles543

Fenian movement57, 136, 137–38, 143

Fenollosa, Ernest523, 523n.1, 524–25, 527, 535–36

Fenollosa, Mary528–29

Ferguson, Samuel34

Ferrara149, 158, 161–62

Fianna Fáil250–51

fiction of Yeats. See novels of Yeats; See short fiction of Yeats

‘Fiddler of Dooney, The’ (Yeats)29–30, 500–1

Field, Michael (Bradley/Cooper collaborative psuedonym)520

Fighting the Waves (Yeats)487–89, 557, 571, 580–82, 584

‘Finn MacCool’ (Yeats)116, 129–31

Finn mac Cumaill (Fionn Mac Cumhaill/McCool)115–16, 119–20, 124, 129–30
Cétamon (‘Mayday’)130–31
Yeats’s self-identification with129–30

Firenze University Press665

First World War
aviators204, 206–15
Battle of the Somme192
Easter Rising196
enlistment of Irishmen184
Yeats views on210–11, 212–14

‘Fisherman, The’ (Yeats)209–10

Fitzgerald, Jim564

Fitzmaurice, George65–66, 553

flight
heroic215
images of209–10
literature of199
of mind206–7
symbols212

flying
Irish aviators, names listed202
mountaineering207–9
sport202, 208–9
travel202
virtues of201–2
wartime204–15

folklore and tales. See also mythology
death118–19, 120–22, 417, 422–23, 426–28
Gregory25, 29–30, 60–61, 68
Irish16–22, 115–16, 117–21, 124–28, 130
media498
Noh526–31
Sligo29–42
songs and ballads252–58
Vision384

Folk-Lore Journal19–20

‘Folly of Being Comforted, The’ (Yeats)67

Fool figure119–20, 174–75, 534, 601, 607–8, 611

form
autobiography11–12

exoteric395–96
Greek330–31, 333
Japanese346–47
mask-making162–64
meaning100, 112
Persian334–39, 349–50
received105
subjectivity266
as term589
Western349

form, poetic. See also metre; See also poetry; See also rhyme scheme
blank verse174–75, 180
‘common measure’252–53
Cowley stanza635
date191
Fescennine615–16, 621–23
haiku345–47

imperfect589
listening589
modernism431, 433–37, 438–40, 442, 444
‘monstrous’318
nonce592–93

passionate syntax589–90
quatrain634–35
repetition592–93
rhyme306
Roman numerals638
Romantics410–13
sonnet158, 164
stanza and refrain262–65
symmetries153–54
vers libre153
white of page265–66

formalism349, 405–6, 438

Fouéré, Olwen565–67

Four Plays for Dancers (Yeats)570–71, 583–84

Four Years (Yeats)142–43, 406

‘Fragments’ (Yeats)361–62

Freeman’s Journal271

French Revolution223, 224, 226–27

Freud, Sigmund258, 281–82, 292

Freudian theory143–44, 415, 416–17, 428, 618, 620

‘Friends of My Youth’ (Yeats)408

Frobenius, Leo322–23

Fuller, Loïe572–73, 573n.13, 574, 577

Full Moon in March, A (Yeats)
dance571, 574–76, 580, 581–82
Noh533, 534
sadomasochism539–40, 541, 542–43, 544, 545–46, 548, 550

Gael, The (newspaper)116, 129–30

Gaelic League310

Gaiety Theatre554–55

Galway
folklore29–30
Gregory37–38, 59, 60, 144
Thoor Ballylee528
‘The Tower’635, 638

‘Ganconagh’ (Yeats pseudonym)28, 29, 29n.2

Gardner, Edmund158, 161–62

Gate Theatre553–54, 558–60

Geldof, Bob492–93, 497–98

gender. See also masculinity
collaboration507, 641
nonconforming/non-normative516–17, 541–42, 544
power539–40, 552
queer desire507, 514–16
symbolism521

‘Genealogical Tree of Revolution, The’ (Yeats)243–44

‘General Introduction for My Work, A’ (Yeats)171, 646–48

General Post Office (GPO)190, 191–92, 293–95, 294n.40

Gentile, Giovanni240–42, 244, 245, 249

Geographical Historie of Africa, A (Pory)311–13, 316, 320–21

Georgian Ireland143, 192

Ghosts (Pearse)143, 147

Ghost World, The (Thiselton-Dyer)27

Gibbon, Edward337–38

‘Gift of Harun Al-Rashid, The’ (Yeats)91–92, 339–42, 360

Gill, Maire470

Giraldus character351–52, 360, 380–82

Gitanjali (Tagore)305–6

Gleeson, Evelyn464–65, 466–68, 472, 483

Glenmalure, Battle of54

Gogarty, Oliver St John199–202, 360, 467

Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the
ceremony578–81
Christianity49
death414–15, 417–19, 421, 428
folklore16–17, 18–19, 23–24
occult philosophy378–79
Leo Africanus314–15
sadomasochism540
transgressive desire516–17
George Yeats93–94, 93n.29

Gonne, Iseult61, 96, 192, 498, 610–11, 612

Gonne, Maud
acting186, 195, 555–56
autobiography11–12, 136, 138, 192, 193–94
collaboration507, 508, 512, 521–22
death of Yeats281, 283, 287–88
divorce612
Gregory61
occult50, 417, 419, 428
political violence288
politics136, 137–38
‘Reconciliation’437–38, 439
reflected in Yeats works67, 160–61, 177, 193–94, 286–88
revolution218, 220, 221n.32, 226–27
shared consciousness519
translation123
Yeats’s feelings for/pursuit of49, 61, 192, 193–94, 281, 283, 287–88, 540, 610, 625, 637, 643

Gosse, Edmund69

Graham, Martha585

‘Great Day, The’ (Yeats)234–35

Great Famine, the426, 428

Greco–Persian wars330–31

Greek culture330–39, 340–41, 349

Greene, George52, 54

Green Helmet and Other Poems, The (Yeats)
aestheticism407
modernism439–42, 444
Pound response300–1
revolution223

Gregory, Isabella Augusta (Lady Gregory)
Abbey Theatre59, 65–66, 69, 70, 554–55, 556, 558–59
Ascendency223, 230
collaboration49, 59, 69–70, 137–38, 144
Coole58, 62, 67, 68, 158, 192, 440–41, 446–47
correspondence14–15, 67, 70, 192, 236
co-writing role63–66, 507, 516, 521–22, 554–55, 555n.7
death58, 67
Dun Emer467
folklore25, 29–30, 60–61, 68, 118–19, 120–21, 384
Gonne61
Robert Gregory69, 206–7, 212–13
‘Manifesto for the Irish Literary Theatre’237
mythopoeic shaping by Yeats59, 67–70
nationalism69–70
nonconforming woman521–22
patron59–63, 158, 165–66, 197
playwright63–65, 137, 249, 521–22, 556–57
Romanticism399
Vision62–63, 69, 386
writings on the Rising192–84

Gregory, Robert69, 76, 159, 204–7, 211–14, 215, 455

Gregory, William59, 60

‘Grey Rock, The’ (Yeats)628–29

Grierson, Herbert158, 411

Grubb, Thomas and Howard365

Gyles, Althea424–25, 446–47, 449–52

‘Gyres, The’ (Yeats)389, 649–50, 654

Hagoromo (Noh drama)526, 527–29

Hail and Farewell (Moore)6, 140

Hall, Sydney45

Hamlet (Shakespeare)167–68, 173, 175, 180–81, 182, 183, 568, 622–23

Hardy, Thomas43

Harrison, Henry146

Harun Al-Rashid339, 341–42

Harvey, Paul60, 61

Heald, Edith Shackleton146–47

Heaney, Seamus176–77, 183, 497

Hearn, Lafcadio535–36

Heath, Lady201–3

Heffernan the Blind, William35

Hegel, G. W. F.93–94, 172, 226–27, 243–44

Heisenberg, Werner359–60, 359n.30

Henry, Niall565–68

Henry V (Shakespeare)172–73

Heptaplus (Pico della Mirandola)93–94

Heraclitus219

Herne’s Egg, The (Yeats)401, 541–42, 564, 663

Hérodiade (Mallarmé)574–59, 576–61

heroic, the
Cuchulain115–16, 118, 132–33, 174–75
death286, 293–95
masculinity640–42
Nietzsche608

Hicks, Cuthbert205–6

Higgins, F. R.254

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth74

‘High Flight’ (Magee)204, 205–6

Hijikata, Tatsumi542

Hindi language495–96

Hindu mysticism314–15

‘His Bargain’ (Yeats)342

history.See also A Vision, system of history/symbols
cyclical142, 146–47, 264–65, 285–86, 319
folklore116–18
legends116, 132–33
vs. logic232
1930s250–51
poetry167–68, 184, 185–86
Pound on248
revolution216
time collapsed242
time travel/manipulation184
war285–86, 295

History of Ireland (S. J. O’Grady)122–23, 125

History of Magic and Experimental Science, A (Thorndike)363

Hoby, Thomas150–51, 158, 163–64, 165–66

Home Rule48

Home Rule Party/Irish Parliamentary Party134, 135–36, 138, 139
Gladstonian Liberal party alliance135–36, 137, 146
Isaac Butt135
Parnell Split137
Redmond137–38

Homer
anecdote504
blindness597, 636
Helen of Troy262–63, 440, 441

homoeroticism542

Hone, Joseph189, 245, 287, 628, 666

Horniman, Annie18–19
co-writing role70
patron64–65

Horton, William Thomas451

‘Hosting of the Sidhe, The’ (Yeats)34, 420

‘Host of the Air, The’ (Yeats)31

Hour Glass, The (Yeats)494–95, 556–57, 562–63, 565–67

Housman, Laurence449–50

Hubble, Edwin365

Hulme, T. E.433–34

humanism151–52, 158, 160–61, 164

Humphrey, Doris585

Huneker, James Gibson74–75, 80

Hunt, William Holman45

Huntington, Henry E.71–72

Huxley, T. H.48–49, 50, 351–54, 356, 363

hvarenah symbol336–39

Hynes, Garry553–54

Ideal Book or Book Beautiful, The (Cobden-Sanderson)474–76

‘Image from a Past Life, An’ (Yeats)619–20

‘Imitated from the Japanese’ (Yeats)345–47

immortalization by sacrifice191–92, 193–95, 197–98, 213, 218, 221, 415–16

impersonality
performative574, 576, 577, 578–79, 581–82, 584–85
poetic168, 256, 570–71, 572, 603

I Must Be Talking to My Friends (Mac Liammóir)560

‘In a Norman Church’ (Plarr)56

India, relation of Yeats’s work to299, 303, 324, 329–30, 342–44, 349–50, 495–96

‘Indian to His Love, The’ (Yeats)342–43

‘Indian Upon God, The’ (Yeats)342–44

‘In Falmouth Harbour’ (Johnson)55

‘In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen’ (Yeats)38–40

‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory’ (Yeats)159, 206–7

‘In the Poet’s Parlour’ broadcast499–500, 502

‘In the Poet’s Pub’ broadcast493–94, 495–96, 499–500, 502

In the Seven Woods (Yeats)
Dun Emer edition455, 467, 471–82, 486–90
modernism439–42

‘Into the Twilight’ (Yeats)326–27

‘Introduction to Fighting the Waves’ (Yeats)242, 244, 245n.43, 246–47

Ipadeola, Tade327–28

Ireland, ancient115
‘bards’116, 120–21, 132, 271, 274
folklore vs history116–18
pre-Christianity116, 117–18

Irish Aero Club201–2

Irish Air Force201–2

‘Irish Airman Foresees His Death, An’ (Yeats)204–15

Irish Civil War
atrocities594
comparison to Parnell Split142–43, 145
crisis of masculinity629, 634
heroic death286
‘Irreconcilables’250–51
Mussolini and238
violence216–17, 272
Yeats’s use of306

Irish Fairy Tales (Yeats)426

Irish Free State8
Anglo-Irish masculinity625, 632
democracy232–33
revolution216–17, 227, 232–33

Senate269
symbols279–80

Irish language304, 310, 327–28
preservation269–70

Irish-language culture
oral tradition117–18, 125, 127–28, 129–30
voyage tales126, 129–30
vs. anglophone culture117–18, 122–23

Irish Literary Revival3, 6–7, 125, 137–38, 159–60, 165–66, 202–3, 313, 355–56, 428, 448

Irish Literary Society of New York72–73

Irish Literary Theatre59, 65–66, 508, 521–22, 555–56

Irish Monthly287

Irish National Dramatic Society555–56

Irish National Theatre173

Irish National Theatre Society65–66

Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB)136, 218, 233

Irish Statesman (newspaper)201–2

Irish Theosophist (journal)26–27

Irish Times, The (newspaper)186–87, 188, 189
Dublin Lockout187

Irish War of Independence
aristocratic houses destroyed230
death of Terence MacSwiney197, 326
historical context250–51, 283, 286
treaty136–37, 227

Irving, Henry172

Islam339–42

Island of the Statues, The (Yeats)508, 514–15, 517–18, 520

Issa, Kobayashi345–47

Italian National Fascist Party238–39

Italian Renaissance
cultural phenomenon151–52, 161, 162
famous patrons148–49
relationship between art and society153–54, 164, 165–66
‘Renaissance Man’158–59
violence161–62

Ito, Michio523, 529n.20, 535–36, 557, 572, 583–84

‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’ (Joyce)138, 143–44, 146

Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile583–84

James, Henry60

Japan, relation of Yeats’s work to323–24, 329–30, 344–47, 523, 542–43, 583

Jefferson and/or Mussolini (Pound)239, 242

John Sherman (Yeats)28–29, 99–100

Johnson, Lionel52, 55

Johnston, Charles18–19

Jones, Ernest143–44

Jonson, Ben159–60

journalism by Yeats69–70, 493, 498, 620

Joyce, James138, 140, 143–44, 146, 149, 174, 176–77, 431, 524

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)290–91

Kabbala/‘cabalistic’ tradition94, 378–79, 418, 425, 449–50

Kabbalah Unveiled, The (Mathers)16–17

Kagekiyo (Noh drama)526, 534–35

‘Kakemono’ scroll525–26

Kalidasa343

Kathleen ni Houlihan (Yeats)554–56, 561, 563, 564

‘Kathleen-Ny-Hoolihan’ (Yeats)35–36

Kavanagh, Rose620

Keane, John279

Keats, John178, 207–8, 405–6, 410–11

Kelmscott Press453–55, 456, 467, 474–76, 489

Kennedy, Patrick22–23

Kikazu Zato (kyogen drama)535

King Lear (Shakespeare)170–71, 174–75, 182, 607, 608, 608n.6, 622–23

King Oedipus (Yeats)279

King of Court Poets, The (Gardner)158, 161–62

King of the Great Clock Tower, The (Yeats)
dance571, 574–76, 584
Noh533–34
Pound on245–46
sadomasochism539–40, 541, 542–43, 545–46, 550–52

King’s Threshold, The (Yeats)271, 272, 427

Kittredge, George255–56

Knight upon the Grave of his Lady, The (Gyles)451

Kobayashi, Shizuo537

Kori, Torahiko523

Krop, Hildo581–82

Kumasaka (Noh drama)526, 532–33

Kume, Tamijuro523, 528–29, 530f

Kusta ben Luka spirit339, 341–42, 360, 380–81, 381n.16

kyogen drama523, 526, 527, 528, 531, 533, 534–37, 607–8, 611–12

Lacan, Jacques281–82, 292

‘Lady, The Squire, and the Serving-maid, The’ (Wellesley)650–51

Laffan, Pat564

‘Lake Isle of Innisfree, The’ (Yeats)
Book of the Rhymers’ Club52, 53–54, 55
media494–95, 496–97
modernity368
nature366–67
Sligo29–30, 37–38
Tynan poem55

La La Noo (Jack Yeats)101, 103–6

Lamb, Henry Taylor483–84

‘Lament of the Masks’ (Okigbo)324

Land of Heart’s Desire, The (Yeats)
broadcast493, 494–95, 496
collaboration507, 508
queer situations514–17
staging72–73

‘Landscape at Night’ (Lily Yeats)46–47

Land War of 1879–1882135–36

Lane, Hugh
gallery controversy139–40, 148, 186, 187–88, 189, 197
gallery poems188, 189, 190
opposition139, 140, 188
‘September 1913’ (Yeats)184–90
theme of generosity spurned160–61
‘To a Shade’ (Yeats)139, 140, 188
‘To a Wealthy Man’ (Yeats)148, 161–62, 188

‘Lapis Lazuli’ (Yeats)172, 181–82
Callimachus335
China344–45
comedy622–23
flight209–10, 212
form596
late style650–51
symbols263–64

Larkin, Philip503–4

Last Poems (Yeats)284–85, 290, 414–15

Last Poems and Plays (Yeats)89–90, 281, 289, 308, 653–55

Last Poems and Two Plays (Yeats)643–44, 652–53, 655

late style
death656
Death of Cuchulain652, 653–54
fundamentals of645
On the Boiler643–44, 653–54
order of works652–53, 654
Said on348–49
as term648–49

Leavis, F. R.353–54, 363

‘Lecture on Modern Poetry’ (Hulme)433–34

Lectures (O’Curry)123, 125

lecture tours by Yeats73–75, 80–81, 85, 300

‘Leda and the Swan’ (Yeats)154–55, 164, 233, 615

Le Gallienne, Richard52, 53

Leisure Hour, The26–27, 452

Leo Africanus spirit310–25, 372

Léon l’Africain (Maalouf)312, 320

Lévi, Éliphas23–25

Lewis, Cecil208–9, 210, 214

Lewis, Wyndham359, 360

Life in the West of Ireland (Jack Yeats)101

‘Lilliputian Ode, A’ (Smedley)621

Lilith (Gyles)451

‘Literature and Science’ (Arnold)352

Little Fleet, A (Jack Yeats)101

‘Little Gidding’ (Eliot)167–68, 285–86

Little Review, The431, 435

Lloyd George, David214

Locke, John351–52, 361–62

‘Long–Legged Fly, The’ (Yeats)164–66, 260–62, 263–64, 266, 267–68, 290–92

Loughrea Cathedral sodality banners467, 482, 489

‘Lover Tells of the Rose in his Heart, The’ (Yeats)405

Lucifer (journal)21, 25

‘Luniolatry; Ancient and Modern’ (Massey)21

Lyric Theatre553–54, 560–64, 565

Maalouf, Amin312, 320

MacBride, John138, 193–94, 196, 610, 612–13

MacDonagh, Thomas193, 196, 292, 433

MacGreevy, Thomas238

Machiavelli, Niccolò151–52, 217n.5

Mac Liammóir, Micheál503–4, 558–61

Macmillan (publisher)
archive at British library657
design446–47, 449–50, 456–57, 459
Mark as reader/editor89–90, 615–16, 657, 658–59, 661, 666
Quinn75–78
works published8–9, 10, 14, 75, 78, 643–44, 646, 653–54, 657–59, 659n.5, 663–64, 666

Macmillan, Frederick457–58

Macmillan, Harold89–90, 396, 659n.5

MacNeice, Louis251–52, 256, 259, 287–88, 497, 609, 613

Macpherson, James120–21, 126, 129–30, 131–32

MacSwiney, Terence197, 225–26, 326

‘Madness of King Goll, The’ (Yeats)123, 452

Magee, John Gillespie204, 205–6, 205n.40

‘Magi, The’ (Yeats)615

magic
doctrines519
drama512, 514, 517–22
folklore23–25
Golden Dawn418, 428
as quadrant of the occult314–15
science363
shared consciousness519
theatre518
George Yeats93–94