The Living Stream
Essays in memory of A. Norman Jeffares
Yeats AnnualÉditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 1 juin 2015
Collection : Yeats Annual
Année d’édition : 2013
Nombre de pages : xxx-366
Présentation
In early 1937, a schoolboy editor at The High School, Harcourt St., Dublin sought a poem from an old boy for The Erasmian. Yeats obliged with ‘What Then’, recently published in an annual anthology in London, but uncollected. Yeats told the editor that it was ‘one of the few poems he had written lately that might be fit for a school magazine’ (NC 378).
The Living Stream is the first set of essays in memory of that editor, Alexander Norman Jeffares, and the quoted allusion in its title pays tribute to the tradition of commentary that he founded. Jeffares, a man of enormous energy and practical force, whose life is more fully described in the opening essay by his friend the Scottish writer Christopher Rush, a neighbour in the Fife Ness peninsula where Derry (as he was universally known to those scholars he trained or encouraged) and Jeanne Jeffares lived in their retirement years. It might well be said that one of the principal deployments in his Trinity College, Dublin doctorate (for a contemporary image of its author, see Plate 22) which later became A Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (1968) is of passages across Yeats’s work to which poems make allusion, or which cast light upon the meanings of poems. In order to see just what Jeffares was on to, it is necessary to go back to 1926, when an aspiring Australian actor and writer met Yeats, as she recalled in 1980 when lecturing to the Library of Congress. Her mother, she said, ‘bore me in the Southern wild’, and brought her up, filled with the poetry of an Ireland the more intense for being utterly remote. Here is how she got there.
Sommaire
Warwick Gould
Editor’s IntroductionWarwick Gould
Acknowledgements and Editorial InformationEssays in Memory of A. Norman Jeffares 1920-2005
Seamus Heaney
From the Window of the HouseTerence Brown
Yeats and the Colours of PoetryJoseph M. Hassett
What Raftery BuiltAnn Saddlemyer
Portrait of George YeatsRonald Schuchard
The Tower: Yeats’s Anti-Modernist MonumentHelen Vendler
Vacillation: Between What and What?Phillip L. Marcus
W. B. Yeats and the Creative Process: The Example of ‘Her Triumph’Deirdre Toomey
The Cold Heaven‘Mastering What is Most Abstract’: A Forum on A Vision
Neil Mann
A Vision (1925) A Review EssayA Vision: The Original 1925 Version, eds. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume XIII (New York: Scribner, 2008)
Matthew M. DeForrest
Yeats and the New PhysicsReviews
Sandra Clark
Denis Donoghue, On Eloquence (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2008), 199 + vii pp.Joseph M. Hassett
Nicholas Grene, Yeats’s Poetic Codes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 247 pp.Matthew Campbell
Ronald Schuchard, The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), xxvi + 446 pp.K. P. S. Jochum
Fiorenzo Fantaccini, W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana (Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2008), 359 pp.
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