Influence and Confluence

The latest in a renowned research-level series, focusing on Yeats' multifarious reading and his iconography. Examining the making of his work - a new unfinished play for dancers is presented - here his influence in Japan via Yone Noguchi and in England and Dorothy Wellesley are explored, together with his legacy via W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney.

• England
• poem
• twentieth century
• William Butler Yeats
• British and Irish Literature

'The admirable Yeats Annual. . . a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats...' - Bernard O'Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement

WARWICK GOULD is Professor of English Literature in the University of London, UK, where he is Director of the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study. He has been Editor of Yeats Annual since 1983, and is co-editor of the Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, II, 1896-1900 (1997) and of Yeats's Mythologies (2005) as well as co-author of Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2001). He is currently co-editing Yeats's Occult Diary (1898-1901), forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.

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