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Letters to the New Island

A New Edition

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. George Bornstein
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  2. Hugh Witemeyer
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Part of the book series: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats (CWWBY)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-5
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  2. From the Boston Pilot

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Irish Writers Who Are Winning Fame

      • W. B. Y.
      Pages 9-12

    3. Some Forthcoming Irish Books

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 13-16

    4. What the Writers and Thinkers Are Doing

      • W. B. Y.
      Pages 17-21

    5. Chevalier Burke — “Shule Aroon” — Carleton and the Banims’ Novels An Autograph Sale at Sotheby’s William Allingham — Miss Ellen O’Leary

      • W. B. Y.
      Pages 22-26

    6. Browning — A New School — Edward Carpenter — Mr. Curtin’s Irish Myths and Folklore — Lady Wilde’s Ancient Cures — Allingham

      • W. B. Y.
      Pages 27-30

    7. Irish Writers Ought to Take Irish Subjects — A Sicilian Idyll

      • W. B. Y.
      Pages 31-35

    8. Dr. Todhunter’s Sicilian Idyll

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 36-39

    9. Rose Kavanagh: Death of a Promising Young Irish Poet

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 40-44

    10. Some Recent Books by Irish Writers

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 45-49

    11. Dr. Todhunter’s New Play

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 50-52

    12. The Celt in Ireland

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 53-56

    13. The Rhymers’ Club

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 57-60

    14. The New “Speranza”

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 61-63

    15. The New National Library — The National Literary Society — Mr. O’Grady’s Stories — Dr. Hyde’s Forthcoming Book — Themes for Irish Litterateurs

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 64-67

  3. From the Providence Sunday Journal

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. The Poet of Ballyshannon

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 71-78

    3. Dr. Todhunter’s Latest Volume of Poems

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 79-90

    4. Irish Wonders

      • W. B. Yeats
      Pages 91-97
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About this book

From 1888 to 1892 W.B.Yeats contributed a series of essays on literature and Irish folklore to two American newspapers, the Boston Pilot and Providence Sunday Journal. These important but little-known pieces show his intense engagement with current books, plays, personalities and controversies. They also make major statements about the issues of cultural nationalism and theatrical reform that preoccupied the poet. Newly edited, annotated, and introduced by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer, Letters to the New Island offers a fresh glimpse of Yeats as an active polemicist, critic and all-round man of letters.

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