Yeats and Women

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Articles and Translation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. “Secret Communion”: Yeats’s Sexual Destiny

      • John Harwood

      Pages 3-30

   3. At the Feet of the Goddess: Yeats’s Love Poetry and the Feminist Occult

      • Elizabeth Butler Cullingford

      Pages 31-59

   4. Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory and the Economy of Indebtedness

      • James Pethica

      Pages 60-94

   5. Labyrinths: Yeats and Maud Gonne

      • Deirdre Toomey

      Pages 95-131

   6. “The Music of Heaven”: Dorothea Hunter

      • Warwick Gould

      Pages 132-188

   7. The Eugenics Movement in the 1930s and the Emergence of On the Boiler

      • David Bradshaw

      Pages 189-215

   8. Florence Farr: Letters to W. B. Yeats, 1912–17

      • Josephine Johnson

      Pages 216-254

   9. Le Don d’Haroun Al-Rachid

      • Jean-Yves Masson

      Pages 255-260

3. Shorter Notes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Georges Gonne and the Soul of the King of Ireland

      • Conrad A. Balliet

      Pages 263-265

   3. Maud Gonne: Some Impressions

      • A. Norman Jeffares

      Pages 266-270

   4. George Yeats, The Countess Cathleen and P. S. O’Hegarty: Notes from the Libraries

      • Wayne K. Chapman

      Pages 271-294

   5. Books by W. B. Yeats in Olivia Shakespear’s Library

      • Warwick Gould

      Pages 295-308

   6. “What is the explanation of it all?”: Nothing and Something

      • Deirdre Toomey

      Pages 309-312

   7. “Images”: Unpublished Tableaux of Opposition

      • Neil Mann

      Pages 313-320

4. Reviews

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 321-321

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   2. Lives

      1. A. Norman Jeffares, <i>W. B. Yeats: A New Biography</i>(London: Hutchinson, 1988) ix + 374 pp

         • Helen Vendler

         Pages 323-328

      2. John Harwood, <i>Olivia Shakespear and W. B. Yeats: After Long Silence</i> (London: Macmillan, 1989) xvi + 218 pp.

         • Marjorie Perloff

         Pages 329-335

Yeats and Women is a special issue of the distinguished Yeats Annual series and is the first collection of essays upon W.B.Yeats to focus upon his relation to women. Its critical and biographical approaches employ feminist and psychoanalytic theory, and social anthropology. The seventeen plates (many hitherto unpublished) include the tomb and coffin of Maud Gonne's first child, Florence Farr's occult Egyptian shrine, and the last photograph of Yeats.

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