The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats de John Kelly

The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume IV, 1905-1907: Yeats Collected Letters Series, cartea 4

John Kelly

Ronald Schuchard

This volume covers a tumultuous period in Yeats's public and personal life, beginning with the acrimonious collapse of Maud Gonne's marriage to Major MacBride (who not only accused Yeats of being her lover but also threatened to shoot him). Dramas at the Abbey Theatre were hardly less intense, both on and off the stage: the euphoria which followed the successful opening of the new theatre quickly dispersed in a relentless cycle of quarrels and schisms. Yeats's attempts to turn an enthusiastic but ill-disciplined amateur society into a professional company led to a permanent division in the company, while the vagaries of Annie Horniman, the irascible patron of the theatre, put the whole movement under permanent tension. Violence actually broke out in January 1907 when the audience rioted at the production of John Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, believing it to be a libel on Ireland. Through all this we see Yeats maturing as an artist: discussing the writing and revising of his poems and plays, preparing the first elaborate American edition of his poems, and undertaking an ambitious eight-volume Collected Works through which he hoped to define his artistic personality. The letters not only record this energetic and often bruising period, but also bear witness to Yeats's indomitable fighting spirit and artistic integrity.

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This fourth volume of The Collected Letters shows Yeats in the full throes of professional life and focuses particularly on his engagement with the Irish drama movement. The editors John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard have provided a superb narrative introduction to a volume that includes letters both to and from Yeats and an appendix documenting the tumultuous history of the Abbey Theatre that is a valuable study in itself. Kelly and Schuchards detailed annotations are thorough but never pedantic, the letters themselves are unusually fascinating, and the whole provides a sense of both sweep and detail. An exemplary marriage of literary pleasure and scholarly brilliance, The Collected Letters will be a work of abiding interest to both general readers and specialists.

Notă biografică

John Kelly is Emeritus Research Fellow in Engilsh at Oxford University, and the general editor of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats.Ronald Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the award-winning author of Eliot's Dark Angel (OUP 1999) and The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (OUP 2008). The editor of T. S. Eliot's Clark and Turnbull lectures, The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (Faber 1993), he is co-editor with John Kelly of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Volume 3 (1994) and Volume 4 (2005), which received the Modern Language Association's Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters. He is general editor of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition in eight volumes (Faber and Johns Hopkins), Volume 2 (2014) of which won the Modernist Studies Association's award for a distinguished edition. A former Guggenheim fellow, he is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.