Early Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles and Reviews Written Between 1886 and 1900

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by  William Butler Yeats

THE COLLECTED WORKS
OF W. B. YEATS
VOLUME IX
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS
Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, General Editors
VOLUME I THE POEMS
ed. Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME II THE PLAYS
ed. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark
VOLUME III AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
ed. William H. O’Donnell and Douglas Archibald
VOLUME IV EARLY ESSAYS
ed. Warwick Gould and Dierdre Toomey
VOLUME V LATER ESSAYS
ed. William H. O’Donnell
VOLUME VI PREFACES AND INTRODUCTIONS
ed. William H. O’Donnell
VOLUME VII LETTERS TO THE NEW ISLAND
ed. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer
VOLUME VIII THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT
ed. Mary FitzGerald and Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME IX EARLY ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
ed. John P. Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre
VOLUME X LATER ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
ed. Colton Johnson
VOLUME XI MYTHOLOGIES
ed. Warwick Gould and Dierdre Toomey
VOLUME XII JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA ed. Richard J. Finneran
VOLUME XIII A VISION (1925) ed. Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine Paul
VOLUME XIV A VISION (1937) ed. Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine Paul
Early Articles and Reviews
UNCOLLECTED ARTICLES
AND REVIEWS WRITTEN BETWEEN
1886 AND 1900
W. B. YEATS
EDITED BY
John P. Frayne Madeleine Marchaterre
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Early articles and reviews : uncollected articles and reviews written between
1886 and 1900 / W. B. Yeats ; edited by John P. Frayne and Madeleine
Marchaterre.
p. cm.—(The collected works of W. B. Yeats ; v. 9)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
I. Frayne, John P. II. Marchaterre, Madeleine. III. Title.
PR5900.A2 F56 1989 vol. 9
[PR5902]
824′.8—dc22 2003063312
ISBN 0-684-80730-0
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CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Articles and Reviews by W. B. Yeats
1. “The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson—I,” The Irish Fireside, 9 October
1886
2. “The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson—II,” The Dublin University Review,
November 1886
3. “The Poetry of R. D. Joyce,” The Irish Fireside, 27 November and 4
December 1886
4. “Clarence Mangan (1803-1849),” The Irish Fireside, 12 March 1887
5. A fragment of “Finn MacCool” from The Gael, 23 April 1887
6. “The Celtic Romances in Miss Tynan’s New Book” (review of
Shamrocks), The Gael, 11 June 1887
7. “Miss Tynan’s New Book” (review of Shamrocks), The Irish Fireside, 9
July 1887
8. “The Prose and Poetry of Wilfred Blunt” (review of Love Songs of
Proteus), United Ireland, 28 January 1888
9. “Irish Fairies, Ghosts, Witches, etc.,” Lucifer, 15 January 1889
10. “Irish Wonders” (review of D. R. McAnally’s book), The Scots
Observer, 30 March 1889
11. “John Todhunter,” The Magazine of Poetry (Buffalo), April 1889
12. “William Carleton” (review of Red-Haired Man’s Wife), The Scots
Observer, 19 October 1889
13. “Popular Ballad Poetry of Ireland,” The Leisure Hour, November 1889
14. “Bardic Ireland” (review of S. Bryant’s Celtic Ireland), The Scots
Observer, 4 January 1890
15. “Tales from the Twilight” (review of Lady Wilde’s Ancient Cures), The
Scots Observer, 1 March 1890