Yeats and Women

by Deirdre Toomey

Overview

Yeats and Women , published originally in the Yeats Annuals series, collects eight essays on Yeats's relationships with women, two collections of letters to him and his broadcast, 'Poems about Women'. The essays cover sexuality and its dynamic in Yeats's writing: his attitude to feminism and to the 'feminist occult'; his relationships with Maud Gonne, Dorothea Hunter, Olivia Shakespear, Florence Farr, Iseult Gonne and George Yeats. Yeats's relationship with Lady Gregory and her co-authorship of Cathleen ni Houlihan is analysed. The collection includes 12 plates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333698167
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/20/1997
Edition description:	2nd ed. 1997
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Abbreviations - Editor's Introduction - Labyrinths: Yeats and Maud Gonne; D.Toomey - At the Feet of the Goddess: Yeats's Love Poetry and the Feminist Occult; E.Butler Cullingford - 'The Music of Heaven': Dorothea Hunter; W.Gould - Away; D.Toomey - Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory and the Economy of Indebtedness; J.Pethica - 'Our Kathleen': Yeats's Collaboration with Lady Gregory in the Writing of Cathleen ni Houlihan; J.Pethica - Yeats and Women: Michael Robartes and the Dancer; E.Butler Cullingford - 'Secret Communion': Yeats's Sexual Destiny; J.Harwood - Florence Farr: Letters to W.B. Yeats, 1912-17; J.Johnson - Olivia Shakespear: Letters to W.B. Yeats; J.Harwood - W.B. Yeats's 'Poems about Women: A Broadcast'; W.Gould - Index