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W. B. Yeats was not only a poet but also a cultural revolutionary. A restless collaborator, he fostered countless artistic enterprises, from the Abbey Theatre to the Cuala Press, and pursued various inter-artistic media and forums for his work. From childhood co-creations with his siblings to the arresting combination of sound and movement in his final play, The Death of Cuchulain, his work also repeatedly addresses and incorporates music, dance, and the visual, material and theatrical arts with remarkable intensity. For him, literature was a vital thing that engaged, in one form or another, all the senses. This volume's newly commissioned chapters analyse afresh such engagements. Bringing together scholars of literature, aesthetics, cultural history and specialists in drama, music, dance and the visual arts, they provide a broad range of historical, conceptual, and disciplinary approaches and perspectives.
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction, Charles I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson and Tom Walker
Part I: Contexts and Concepts
1. Yeats, William Morris and the Aesthetics of the Everyday, Lucy Hartley and John Whittier-Ferguson
2. Yeats and The Savoy: French Decadence and Irish Poetry, Matthew Creasy
3. The Institutionalisation of Art in Dublin: Yeats, Sociability and Transnationalism, Kathryn Milligan
4. The Virtual Archive of Anima Mundi, Charles I. Armstrong
5. On the Scale of Art and the Aesthetics of Difficulty: Re-reading 'Lapis Lazuli' as Ecological Critique, Barry Shiels
6. Knowing Ruskin's Cat: Yeats and the Proper Names of the Aesthetic, Christopher Morash
7. Cuchulain the Cowboy: A Tale of Yeats and the Wild West, Margaret Mills Harper
Part II: Visual and Material Culture
8. Yeats, Blake and the Romanticism of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Colin Trodd
9. Yeats and Edwardian Languages of Art, Sophie Hatchwell
10. The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and the Limits of Portraiture, Tom Walker
11. A 'cacophony of sardine tins': Yeats and Modern Art, Hugh Haughton
12. Yeats, Byzantine Art and Celtic Occultism, J. B. Bullen
13. A Swedish Bounty: Yeats, Public Art and European Nationalisms in the Free State, Jack Quin
14. Preservation and Proportion in 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited', Adam Hanna
15. Late Yeats, Print and Symbolic Book Design: The Case of Responsibilities, David Holdeman
16. Illustrating the 1935 and 1937 Cuala Press Broadsides, Angela Griffith
17. Poetry, Painting and Posterity: Yeats as Example and Burden, Rui Carvalho Homem
Part III: Performance and Sound
18. The World that Sang and Listened: Yeats and Florence Farr's 'New Art' of Verse Speaking, Isabelle Stuart
19. 'Music had driven their wits astray': Raftery, Nietzsche and the Applied Arts, Adrian Paterson
20. Yeats and Wagner: The Countess Cathleen and Other Plays, Michael McAteer
21. 'We must have a new kind of scenic art': Yeats's Set Design and Stagecraft, Seán Golden
22. Yeats, Gender-Bending and the Art of Transvestism, Zsuzsanna Balázs
23. The Dramaturgy of Movement: Choreographic Writing in The Dreaming of the Bones, Melinda Szűts
24. Choreographic Collaborations: Yeats and Ninette de Valois, Megan Girdwood
25. 'Lose my words in patterns of sound': Music in the Dance Plays for Ninette de Valois, Mark Fitzgerald
26. Yeats's Common Measure: The Later Ballads, Matthew Campbell
Notes on Contributors
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