W. B. Yeats in Context

David Holdeman is Professor of English at the University of North Texas. Ben Levitas is Lecturer in the Department of Drama at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

• Introduction David Holdeman and Ben Levitas; Part I. Times: 1. Church, state, childhood, and youth, 1865–85 W. J. McCormack; 2. The fin de siècle, 1885–97 Stephen Regan; 3. Anger management, 1898–1913 Adrian Frazier; 4. War, 1914–23 Ben Levitas; 5. The Irish Free State and the European crisis, 1924–39 Paul Scott Stanfield; Part II. Places: 6. Sligo David Fitzpatrick; 7. London Timothy Webb; 8. Dublin Anthony Roche; 9. Galway: Coole and Ballylee Jonathan Allison; Part III. Personalities: 10. John Butler Yeats Douglas Archibald; 11. Maud Gonne Karen Steele; 12. Lady Gregory Judith Hill; 13. J. M. Synge Nicholas Grene; 14. Ezra Pound Catherine E. Paul; 15. George Yeats Margaret Mills Harper; Part IV. Themes: 16. Class and eugenics Donald J. Childs; 17. Nationalism and postcolonialism David Lloyd; 18. Gender Vicki Mahaffey; 19. Aesthetics James Pethica; 20. Fascism R. F. Foster; Part V. Philosophies: 21. The Church in Ireland: Protestant and Catholic Nicholas Allen; 22. Occultism Timothy Materer; 23. Folklore Sinéad Garrigan Mattar; 24. Indian thought Shalini Sikka; 25. Nietzsche Michael Valdez Moses; 26. Classical philosophy Matthew Gibson; 27. Landscape, family, eighteenth-century Ireland Jefferson Holdridge; Part VI. Arts: 28. Nineteenth-century Irish poetry Phillip L. Marcus; 29. The English Romantic Symbolists Matthew Campbell; 30. Modern poetry James Longenbach; 31. Theatrical culture Richard Cave; 32. The visual arts Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux; 33. Modern fiction Frank Shovlin; Part VII. Reception: 34. Manuscripts and revisions David Holdeman; 35. Publishers and the material text George Bornstein; 36. Critical debate, 1939–70 Edna Longley; 37. Critical debate, 1970–2006 Rob Doggett; 38. Popular culture Geraldine Higgins; Guide to further reading; Index.