Influence and Confluence

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.

• List of Plates Abbreviations Editorial Board Notes on Contributors Editor's Introduction Acknowledgements and Editorial Information W.B. Yeats and the Vegetable Phoenix; N.Mann The Turbulent Lives of Yeats's Painted Horses; A.Cuda No Dancing: Yone Noguchi in Yeats's Japan; E.Marx Guardians of the Tower and Stream: Yeats's Unfinished Fifth Play for Dancers, 1918-1923; W.K.Chapman Yeats's 'Quattrocento Finger'; D.Roper 'Breaking Bread with the Dead': W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats's Legacy; S.Connolly W.B. Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley; D.Ferrelli 'MASTERING WHAT IS MOST ABSTRACT': A FORUM ON A VISION The Opening and Closing of the Tinctures: An Analysis; R.Ryan Death and the Anti-Self; B.McNamee REVIEWS The Unquiet Ghost: The New Mythologies and the Editing of Yeats's Text in the Twenty-First Century (W.B. Yeats, Mythologies , ed. by Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey); P.L.Marcus W.B.Yeats, The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, Vol IV 1905-1907 , edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard; J.Pethica Ann Saddlemyer, Becoming George: The Life of George Yeats ; C.McDowell W.J. McCormack, Blood Kindred: The Life, the Death, the Politics ; D.Dwan W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire: Manuscript Materials , ed. by Jared Curtis; R.A.Cave W.B. Yeats, Responsibilities: Manuscript Materials , ed. by William H. O'Donnell; W.Van Mierlo W.B. Yeats, The Only Jealousy of Emer and Fighting the Waves: Manuscript Materials , ed. by Steven Winnett; R.A.Cave W.B. Yeats, The Dreaming of the Bones and Calvary: Manuscript Materials , ed. by Wayne K. Chapman; R.A.Cave W.B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems: Manuscript Materials , ed. by David R. Clark; N.Mann W.B. Yeats, New Poems: Manuscript Materials , ed. by J.C.C. Mays and Stephen Parrish; D.L.Ferrelli Swedenborg, the Golden Dawn and the Desolate Places, The Atlantic Bookshop 'Golden Dawn' Conference, 5 August 2006; D.Toomey Mummy Truths? Patricia Hughes, W.B. Yeats and the Murder of Honor Bright ; D.Toomey Publications Received Index

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