Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Volume XVI, 1998

by Richard J. Finneran (Editor)

Yeats XVI is an addition to the important annual which collects the best and most recent Yeats criticism. This volume includes a review of Brenda Maddox's Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats, essays by established and up-and-coming Yeats scholars, and a bibliography of recent international scholarship on Yeats by K. P. S. Jochum. Featured essays include: "Lacking Seriousness: Beckett's Belacqua and Yeats's Hanrahan" by John Cussen, "Monastery of the Moon: Corcomroe Abbey and The Dreaming of the Bones" by Carmel Jordan, "Visits and Revisits: W. B. Yeats at the Municipal Gallery, Dublin" by Catherine Paul, "The Genesis of 'The Second Coming': A Textual Analysis of the Manuscript-Draft" by Simona Vannini, "Images Fresh Images Beget: Yeats, DeMan, and Deconstruction" by Caroline Roberts, and "Synge, Yeats, and Bardic Poetry" by Declan Kiberd.
Richard J. Finneran is Hodges Chair of Excellence Professor of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

312 pages, Hardcover

First published October 18, 2001

About the author

Richard J. Finneran was general editor, with George Mills Harper, of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats for many years; series editor of The Poems in the Cornell Yeats; and editor of Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, among other works. He held the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; was a past president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; and served as executive director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.