The living stream: essays in memory of A. Norman Jeffares; Yeats Annual no.18, a special issue

"Yeats Annual No. 18 is another special issue in this renowned research-level series offering a tribute to the pioneering Yeats scholar, A. Norman Jeffares. Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of Jeffares's work. Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Warwick Gould, Joseph M. Hassett, Phillip L. Marcus, Ann Saddlemyer, Ronald Schuchard, Deirdre Toomey and Helen Vendler offer essays on such topics as Yeats and the Colours of Poetry, Yeats's Shakespeare, Yeats and Seamus Heaney, Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy, Raftery's work on Yeats's Thoor Ballylee, Edmund Dulac's portrait of Mrs George Yeats, The Tower as an anti-Modernist monument, with close studies of 'Vacillation', 'Her Triumph', and 'The Cold Heaven'. Throughout, the essays are inflected with memories of Jeffares and his critical methods. The volume is rounded with further essays on A Vision by Neil Mann and Matthew de Forrest, while reviews of recent editions and studies are provided by Matthew Campbell, Wayne K. Chapman, Sandra Clark, Denis Donoghue, Nicholas Grene, Joseph M. Hassett, and K.P.S. Jochum."--Publisher's website.

Intro -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Editorial Board -- Notes on the Contributors -- Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgements and Editorial Information -- Essays in Memory of A Norman Jeffares -- Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares 11 August 1920-1 June 2005 -- From the Window of the House -- Lips and Ships, Peers and Tears: Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy -- Yeats and the Colours of Poetry -- Yeat's Shakespeare: 'There is a Good Deal of my Father in it' -- What Raftery Built -- A Portrait of George Yeats -- The Tower: Yeats's Anti-Modernist Monument -- Vacillation: Between What and What? -- W. B. Yeats and the Creative Process: The Example of 'Her Triumph' -- The Cold Heaven -- Question Me Again: Reflections of W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney -- A Select Checklist of the Writings of Alexander Norman Jeffares (1920-2005) -- 'Mastering What is Most Abstract': A Forum on A Vision -- A Vision (1925): A Review Essay -- Yeats and the New Physics -- Reviews -- 'A Law Indifferent to Blame or Praise': W. B. Yeats, The Tower (1928): Manuscript Materials, edited by Richard J. Finneran, with Jared Curtis and Ann Saddlemyer. -- Denis Donoghue, On Eloquence -- Nicholas Grene, Yeats's Poetic Codes -- W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock Tower and A Full Moon in March: Manuscript Materials, edited by Richard Allen Cave -- Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form -- Ronald Schuchard, The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts -- Fiorenzo Fantaccini, W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana -- Margaret Mills Harper, Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats -- Publications Received.