Mythologies by W.B.Yeats

WARWICK GOULD is Professor of English Literature in the University of London, where he is Director of the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study. He has been Editor of Yeats Annual since 1983, and is co-editor of the Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, II, 1896-1900 (1997) and co-author of Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2001). He is currently co-editing Yeats's Occult Diary (1898-1901, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan).DEIRDRE TOOMEY is editor of Yeats and Women: Yeats Annual No 9 (1991), revised and augmented as Yeats and Women (Macmillan, 1997). She is co-editor of The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, Vol II, (1896-1900) (Clarendon, 1997) and of Yeats Occult Diary (1898-1901), (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan). She is Research Editor of Yeats Annual and is currently co-editing a complete revision of A.Norman Jeffares's New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats (also forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan).

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Prefatory Note Editors' Introduction Editorial Principles and A Note on the Text Yeats's 'Note' to Mythologies (1959) The Celtic Twilight (1893) The Secret Rose (1897) Stories of Red Hanrahan (1897) Rosa Alchemica, The Tables of the Law , and The Adoration of the Magi (1897) Explanatory and Textual Notes Appendix 1: Abandoned Text from Earlier Editions of The Celtic Twilight Appendix 2: Yeats's Newspaper Cuttings Assemblage towards The Celtic Twilight (1893) Appendix 3: Emendations to the Copy-Text Appendix 4: Line-End Word Division in the Copy-Text Appendix 5: Variants from the Copy-Text found in the 1931-2 Page-proofs of Mythologies and The Irish Dramatic Movement Appendix 6: Rearrangements Index