Yeats's Poetry in the Making

WAYNE K. CHAPMAN is Professor of English at Clemson University, USA. He is the author of Yeats and English Renaissance Literature (Macmillan, 1991), and co-edited no.15 in the Yeats Annual series, Yeats's Collaborations (2002). He has co-edited two volumes for the Cornell Yeats Manuscript series, The Countess Cathleen: Manuscript Materials (1999) and The Dreaming of the Bones and Calvary: Manuscript Materials (2003). He is also Editor of the South Carolina Review and Executive Editor of Clemson University Digital Press.

"There is much for those who are interested in the process of creation and publication, without a deep knowledge of the context. ... This is a rich book and a valuable contribution to Yeats studies, textual studies, and genetic research. It shows the fascination of this difficult and painstaking work, of seeking and gaining a deeper understanding of the creative process, and of pushing towards an ever-fuller picture and ever-greater accuracy." (Neil Mann, The South Carolina Review, Vol. 48 (2), 2016) '...[an] engaging, informative study..' - CHOICE

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Poetic Themes Are Plants That Grow: The Process of Making and Remaking Verse The ' Countess Cathleen Row' of 1899, Later Revisions, and Poems (1901-1929) The Annotated Responsibilities : Errors in the Variorum Edition and a New Reading of the Genesis of Two Poems, On those that hated The Playboy of the Western World, 1907 and The New Faces Yeats's Displaced Rebellion Poems and the Great War: The Case of The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer Guardians of the Tower and Stream : Yeats's Unfinished Fifth Play for Dancers, 1918-1923 The Miltonic Crux of The Phases of the Moon and News for the Delphic Oracle Blake, Swedenborg, and A Vision : A Case for Recombinate Influence The Municipal Gallery Re-visited and Its Writing W. B. and George Yeats: The Writing, Editing, and Dating of Yeats's Poems of the Mid 1920s and 1930s Appendix A: A Chronology of the Composition of the Poems Appendix B: Yeats's Unfinished Fifth Play for Dancers , 1918-1923 Notes Select Bibliography