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W. B. Yeats: Mythologies

W. B. Yeats: Mythologies

Gould, Warwick
Toomey, Deirdre
Mann, Neil

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1805118684
ISBN13: 9781805118688
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 686
Weight: 2.49
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In Mythologies, W. B. Yeats gathered together the shorter fiction that had appeared in The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, Stories of Red Hanrahan, and the stories of 'Rosa Alchemica', 'The Tables of the Law', and 'The Adoration of the Magi', in the 1890s. These centre on Irish folklore, poetic history, and mystical occultism, bringing together Yeats's passionate Irish nationalism and fascination with esoteric symbolism. The landscape and culture of Ireland and its people are brought to life in stories that range from the times of earliest Christianity to late-nineteenth-century Dublin and rural Ireland. In their introduction, Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey situate these works within Yeats's evolving conceptions of folklore, myth, occult philosophy, authorship and collaboration. Particular attention is given to his role as collector and witness of Irish oral culture, his engagement with contemporary folklore studies, and his lifelong effort to reconcile personal vision with collective tradition. Yeats continued to rework the fictions into the 1920s and '30s, and they are presented here in their authoritative final form, while Gould and Toomey reconstruct the complex history of composition, revision, and republication, drawing on extensive archival research, manuscript evidence, and textual collation. Editorial principles are clearly set out, and substantial appendices document abandoned texts, textual variants, and Yeats's own rearrangements, offering scholars unprecedented insight into the genesis and transmission of these works. Mythologies emerges here as a key structural node in Yeats's canon: a bridge between poetry, drama, and philosophy, and a paradigm for understanding his practice of continual revision and self-mythologising. Essential for scholars and students of Yeats, Irish literature, and modernism, this edition restores Mythologies to its central place in Yeats studies. This second edition, revised for Open Book Publishers by Neil Mann, corrects errata and brings references up to date.

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