YEATS, SLIGO AND IRELAND
Edited by A.Norman Jeffares
0-86140-041-0 x,270pp. 1980 £25.00

A collection of essays written to mark the 21st Yeats International School in Sligo in 1980.

  `Remarkable for their vitality and freshness of interpretation.' Choice

Irish Literary Studies 6

CONTENTS

Marking the 21st Yeats International Summer School in Sligo
Published 11 August 1980

Acknowledgements vi
Introduction. A. Norman Jeffares vii

A MATTER OF CHARACTER: RED HANRAHAN AND CRAZY JANE
Lester I.Conner
ROMANTIC IRELAND
Denis Donoghue
THE WILDNESS OF CRAZY JANE
Barbara Hardy
YEATS AS AN EXAMPLE?
Seamus Heaney
THE PLACE OF SHELLS
T.R.Henn
HOW GOES THE WEATHER?
John Holloway
YEATS AND THE WRONG LEVER
A.Norman Jeffares
THE VISITOR. Brendan Kennelly
YEATS AND VICTORIAN IRELAND
F.S.L.Lyons
HOUND VOICES WERE THEY ALL: AN EXPERIMENT IN YEATS CRITICISM. Augustine Martin
THE SHAPE-CHANGERS
D.E.S.Maxwell
HOME LIFE AMONG THE YEATSES
William M.Murphy
YEATS, NATURE AND THE SELF
Patrick Rafroidi
THE `DWARF DRAMAS' OF THE EARLY ABBEY THEATRE
Ann Saddlemyer
FOUR ELEGIES
Helen Vendler
BOOKS AND NUMBERLESS DREAMS: YEATS'S RELATIONS WITH HIS EARLY PUBLISHERS
John S.Kelly

Notes on Contributors
Speakers at Sligo 1960-1980
Index

05/08/2005