The Living Stream

Essays in memory of A. Norman Jeffares

Warwick Gould (dir.)
Yeats Annual

Éditeur : 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

Essays in Memory of A. Norman Jeffares 1920-2005

Christopher Rush

Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares

11 August 1920-1 June 2005

Warwick Gould

Lips and Ships, Peers and Tears

Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy

Joseph M. Hassett

What Raftery Built

Deirdre Toomey

The Cold Heaven

‘Mastering What is Most Abstract’: A Forum on A Vision

Neil Mann

A Vision (1925) A Review Essay

A 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 Physics

Reviews


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