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 Scribner NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY SCRIBNER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Compilation copyright © 2004 by Michael Yeats Preface and notes copyright © 2004 by John P. Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. SCRIBNER and design are trademarks of Macmillan Library Reference USA, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of this work. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales: 1-800-456-6798 or [email protected] Text set in Sabon Manufactured in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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 eISBN: 978-1-45160304-0 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 16. “Irish Fairies,” The Leisure Hour, October 1890 17. “Irish Folk Tales” (review of D. Hyde’s Beside the Fire), The National Observer, 28 February 1891 18. “Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling” (review of G. E. Leland’s book), The National Observer, 18 April 1891 19. “Plays by an Irish Poet” (review of J. Todhunter’s A Sicilian Idyll), United Ireland, 11 July 1891 20. “Clarence Mangan’s Love Affair,” United Ireland, 22 August 1891 21. “A Reckless Century. Irish Rakes and Duellists,” United Ireland, 12 September 1891 22. “Oscar Wilde’s Last Book” (review of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime), United Ireland, 26 September 1891 23. “The Young Ireland League,” United Ireland, 3 October 1891 24. “A Poet We Have Neglected” (review of W. Allingham’s collected poems), United Ireland, 12 December 1891 25. “Poems by Miss Tynan” (review of Ballads and Lyrics), Evening Herald (Dublin), 2 January 1892 26. “The New ‘Speranza’” (article on Maud Gonne), United Ireland, 16 January 1892 27. “Dr. Todhunter’s Irish Poems” (review of The Banshee), United Ireland, 23 January 1892 28. “Clovis Hugues on Ireland,” United Ireland, 30 January 1892 29. “Sight and Song” (review of M. Field’s book), The Bookman, July 1892 30. “Some New Irish Books” (review of books by G. Savage-Armstrong, W. Larminie, and R. J. Reilly), United Ireland, 23 July 1892 31. “Dublin Scholasticism and Trinity College,” United Ireland, 30 July 1892 32. “A New Poet” (review of E. J. Ellis’s Fate in Arcadia), The Bookman, September 1892 33. “‘Noetry’ and Poetry” (review of G. Savage-Armstrong’s collected poems), The Bookman, September 1892 34. “Invoking the Irish Fairies,” The Irish Theosophist, October 1892 35. “Hopes and Fears for Irish Literature,” United Ireland, 15 October 1892 36. “The Death of Oenone” (review of Tennyson’s poems), The Bookman, December 1892 37. “The Vision of MacConglinne” (review of K. Meyer’s edition), The Bookman, February 1893 38. “The Wandering Jew” (review of R. Buchanan’s poem), The Bookman, April 1893 39. “A Bundle of Poets” (review of A. H. Hallam’s poems, etc.), The Speaker, 22 July 1893 40. “The Writings of William Blake” (review of L. Housman’s selection), The Bookman, August 1893 41. “The Message of the Folk-lorist” (article, and review of T. F. Dyer’s The Ghost World), The Speaker, 19 August 1893 42. “Two Minor Lyrists” (review of poems by J. D. Hosken and Fenil Haig [F. M. Ford]), The Speaker, 26 August 1893 43. “Old Gaelic Love Songs” (review of D. Hyde’s Love Songs of Connacht),The Bookman, October 1893 44. “The Ainu” (review of B. D. Howard’s Life with Trans-Siberian Savages), The Speaker, 7 October 1893 45. “Reflections and Refractions” (review of C. Weekes’s poems), The Academy, 4 November 1893 46. “Seen in Three Days” (review of E. J. Ellis’s poem), The Bookman, February 1894 47. “A Symbolical Drama in Paris” (review of Villiers de L’Isle-Adam’s Axël), The Bookman, April 1894 48. “The Evangel of Folk-lore” (review of W. Larminie’s West Irish Folk Tales), The Bookman, June 1894 49. “A New Poet” (review of AE’s Homeward, Songs by the Way), The Bookman, August 1894 50. “Some Irish National Books” (review of books by M. MacDermott, E. M. Lynch, and C. O’Kelly), The Bookman, August 1894 51. “An Imaged World” (review of E. Garnett’s prose poems), The Speaker, 8 September 1894 52. “The Stone and the Elixir” (review of F. E. Garrett’s translation of H. Ibsen’s Brand), The Bookman, October 1894 53. “Battles Long Ago” (review of S. O’Grady’s The Coming of Cuculain), The Bookman, February 1895 54. “An Excellent Talker” (review of O. Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance), The Bookman, March 1895