W.B. Yeats's Robartes-Aherne Writings

Featuring the Making of His "Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends"

Wayne K. Chapman

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781350210745
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472595157
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Collections littéraires européennes

The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne appear throughout the writing of the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, featuring in his poems, short fictions, dialogues and as authorities in notes to his work. Bringing together into one volume published and unpublished writings featuring these two enigmatic figures, W.B. Yeats's Robartes-Aherne Writings traces their history and the development of Yeats's mystical thought that culminated (twice) in the publication of his visionary work A Vision (1925, 1937).

Including reproductions of manuscript and notebook pages as well as transcriptions and extracts from a wide range of Yeats's mystical writings and substantial commentary and annotation throughout, this book is an essential resource for scholars of Yeats's thought, his stylistic evolution and the esoteric influences on modernist writing in the early 20th century.

Table of contents

• Cover page
• Halftitle page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• EDITORIAL PREFACE TO MODERNIST ARCHIVES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• Part One: 1896–1897 (1908) The Secret Rose Triptych—Early Tales of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne (from The Collected Works, 1908)
• Part Two: 1917–1920 Unpublished Dialogues and Extracts—The Resurrection of Robartes and Aherne
• Part Three: 1919–1925 Published Poems, Notes, and Extracts—
• Part Four: 1929–1931 The Making of “Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends”
• Part Five: 1932–1937 Afterword: Unpublished and Published Additions Prepared for A Vision (Macmillan, 1937)
• INDEX