In the same series YEATS ANNUALS Nos. 1, 2 Edited by Richard J. Finneran YEATS ANNUALS Nos. 3-8, 10-11, 13 Edited by Warwick Gould YEATS AND WOMEN: YEATS ANNUAL No. 9: A Special Number Edited by Deirdre Toomey THAT ACCUSING EYE: YEATS AND HIS IRISH READERS YEATS ANNUAL No. 12: A Special Number Edited by Warwick Gould and Edna Longley YEATS AND THE NINETIES YEATS ANNUAL No. 14: A Special Number Edited by Warwick Gould YEATS’S COLLABORATIONS YEATS ANNUAL No. 15: A Special Number Edited by Wayne K. Chapman and Warwick Gould POEMS AND CONTEXTS YEATS ANNUAL No. 16: A Special Number Edited by Warwick Gould INFLUENCE AND CONFLUENCE: YEATS ANNUAL No. 17: A Special Number Edited by Warwick Gould YEATS ANNUAL No. 18 Frontispiece: Derry Jeffares beside the Edmund Dulac memorial stone to W. B. Yeats. Roquebrune Cemetery, France, 1986. Private Collection. THE LIVING STREAM ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF A. NORMAN JEFFARES YEATS ANNUAL No. 18 A Special Issue Edited by Warwick Gould http://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2013 Gould, et al. (contributors retain copyright of their work). The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt the text and to make commercial use of the text. The work must be attributed to the respective authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Details of allowances and restrictions are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Please see List of Illustrations for copyright relating to individual images. As with all Open Book Publishers titles, digital material and resources associated with this volume are available from our website at: http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/194/ ISBN Hardback: 978-1-909254-36-7 ISBN Paperback: 978-1-909254-35-0 ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-909254-37-4 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-909254-38-1 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-909254-39-8 Series ISSN: 0278-7687 DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0028 Cover image: Thomas Sturge Moore’s cover for The Tower (1928), Private Collection, London. The Yeats Annual fleuron (cover and half-title) is based upon Thomas Sturge Moore’s rose design, as used in his illustrations for H. P. R. Finberg’s translation of Count de Villiers de L’Isle Adam’s Axel with Yeats’s preface (London: Jarrolds Publishers Ltd., 1925), and elsewhere on cover designs for Yeats’s books, most notably Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1917), courtesy of the late Riette Sturge Moore. All paper used by Open Book Publishers is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative), and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) Certified. Printed in the United Kingdom and United States by Lightning Source for Open Book Publishers IN MEMORIAM A. Norman Jeffares 11 August 1920-1 June 2005 Contents List of Illustrations x Abbreviations xii Editorial Board xix Notes on the Contributors xx Editor’s Introduction xxv Acknowledgements and Editorial Information xxx ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF A NORMAN JEFFARES Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares 11 August 1920-1 June 2005 CHRISTOPHER RUSH 3 From the Window of the House SEAMUS HEANEY 11 Lips and Ships, Peers and Tears: Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy: WARWICK GOULD 15 Yeats and the Colours of Poetry TERENCE BROWN 57 Yeats’s Shakespeare: ‘There is a Good Deal of my Father in it’ DENIS DONOGHUE 69 What Raftery Built JOSEPH M. HASSETT 97 A Portrait of George Yeats ANN SADDLEMYER 107 vii