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  The W.B. and George Yeats Library: A Short Title Catalog

  Wayne K. Chapman

  This catalog of bibliographic citations accounts for every publi-cation identified as part of the W. B. Yeats Library, which, since the death of Anne Yeats in 2001, has become a distinct part of the National Library of Ireland (NLI). In effect, the alphabetical list not counting publications that were sold or otherwise dispersed by the poet or his wife, George Yeats, in their lifetimes, or by members of their family up to 1971, when the late Glenn O’Malley of Arizona State University made an inventory that became the foundation for SUNY Professor Edward O’Shea’s A Descriptive Catalog of the W. B. Yeats Library, Volume 470 of the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (New York: Garland Publishing, 1985).

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  The Works of William Blake

  Edwin Ellis and W. B. Yeats

  As one of the significant nineteenth-century developments in the dissemination of Blake's poetry, this book also made an ambitious attempt to interpret the poet's vatic approach to the making of literature. Today, this classic of 1893 is still illuminating for the lifetime influence it had on one of its editors, W. B. Yeats, who became perhaps the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and, like Blake, a visionary one, at that.

  Presently, disparate parts of the book's three volumes may be found on the Internet but not all three. This online facsimile is the first to present all three simply to advance inquiry on Yeats's Blake. Professor Chapman's introduction on Yeats's collaboration with his father's friend, Edwin Ellis, also a poet, is thus supplemented by illustrated accounts of selected materials in the W. B. Yeats Library (courtesy of the National Library of Ireland and the Yeats Estate), including Yeats's own annotated copy of The Works of William Blake.

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  Verses 1856-1884, A Critical Edition by Elizabeth Dickinson West

  Wayne K. Chapman

  Like any critical edition, this book engages with and acknowledges a number of texts, particularly Verses by E.D.W. (i.e., Elizabeth Dickinson West (1875, 1883). The poet was the student and thereafter the second wife of Edward Downden, the inspiration behind his posthumous published collection of lyric poems, A Woman's Reliquary (Cudo Press, 1913). This edition of her work is the only one that gathers in one place all of her original poems, including some manuscript versions of published and unpublished work.

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  W. B. Yeats's "A Vision": Explications and Contexts

  W. B. Yeats

  W. B. Yeats's "A Vision": Explications and Contexts is the first volume of essays devoted to A Vision and the associated system developed by W. B. Yeats and his wife, George. A Vision is all-encompassing in its stated aims and scope, and it invites a wide range of approaches—as demonstrated in the essays collected here, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The first six essays present explications of broader themes in A Vision itself: the system's general principles; incarnate life and the Faculties; discarnate life and the Principles; how Yeats relates his own work to other philosophical approaches; and his consideration of the historical process. A further three essays include an examination of the elusive Thirteenth Cone, a consideration of astrological features in the automatic script, and a view of the poetry within A Vision. The final five essays look at contextual themes, whether of collaboration and influence—between husband, wife, and spirits, or with another poet—or the gender perspective within these interrelations, the historical context of Golden-Dawn occultism or the broader political context of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout, the different contributors take a variety of stances with regard to texts and the automatic script. This is an important contribution to Yeats scholarship in general and a landmark in studies of A Vision.

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  Lyrical Ballads 1798: A Critical Edition by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wayne K. Chapman

  This book is the product of collaboration between Dr. Wayne K. Chapman and the students of his Literary Editing class (English 441/641) during eight of the sixteen weeks of fall semester 2011 at Clemson University. Like any critical edition, it engages with and acknowledges a number of precursor texts, the most evident being the four editions of Lyrical Ballads that mark the success of the once experimental verse that the poets ventured to publish, at first anonymously, in 1798, as well as the commemorative facsimiles published by David Nutt (London) and edited by prolific scholar, editor, and poet Edward Dowden (1843-191

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  Edward Dowden: A Critical Edition of the Complete Poetry

  Wayne K. Chapman

  Published online as a special issue of The South Carolina Review (vol. 42, no. 3, summer 2010), this volume reintroduces Edward Dowden, a significant poet of the nineteenth century, to a modern audience which has forgotten, probably, that this distinguished Irish authority on Shakespeare, Goethe and Shelley thought of himself as a poet first. Our perception of Dowden today is that he was a better critic than he was a poet; and in the main, this judgment may be sound, but it goes untested due to the scarcity of his poetic works. Without the commitment he made to his academic post at Trinity College, Dublin, he might have become another Meredith. His poetry was prominently featured in Alfred Miles’s series The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, c. 1891-1906)—an influential tome which conferred canonical stature to a broader field of poets than we tend to observe from our distant perspective.

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  Writing Modern Ireland

  Catherine E. Paul

  This special number of The South Carolina Review (vol. 43, no. 1, fall 2010), guest-edited by Catherine E. Paul, focuses on Irish literature. It includes scholarship on Irish writers as well as contemporary Irish creative writing. For example, the issue features work by Ronald Schuchard, Michael Sidnell, and Jeff Holdridge, as well as translations by Patrick Crotty of modern poetry in Irish, poetry in English by young Irish poets, and a host of contributions from scholars in the USA, UK, Belgium, and France.

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  The W. B. and George Yeats Library: A Short-Title Catalog

  Wayne K. Chapman

  This online catalog accounts for every publication that has been identified as part of the W. B. Yeats Library, which, since the death of Anne Yeats in 2001, has become a distinct part of the National Library of Ireland. In effect, the searchable alphabetical list constitutes a census of items that currently define the Yeats Library as a body, including links to and notes on related matter.

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  An Annotated Guide to the Writings and Papers of Leonard Woolf

  Janet M. Manson and Wayne K. Chapman

  The Annotated Guide is an ongoing effort to provide on Leonard Woolf the kind of bibliographic information sometimes found in the pages of Woolf Studies Annual on Virginia Woolf. This e-book may be used as a finding aid to collections of Leonard Woolf papers, and it substantially augments such tools on the subject as the unindexed Short-Title Catalog (by Julia King and Laila Miletic-Vejzovic) and the slightly indexed but incomplete listing in Leonard Woolf: A Bibliography (by Leila Luedeking and Michael Edmonds).

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  Literature and Digital Technologies: W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, and William Gass

  Y. B. Yeats

  Four international writers are examined by seven scholars who consider the effects of digital technologies on the idea of what a book is and on what constitutes literature. When writing and reading change as experiences, the tools used to research and teach literature also change. How does the "digital imperative" compel adjustments in academic programs? How might electronic technologies redefine an English department or an academic press? These topics, and others, are investigated in this timely book.

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  New Technology and the Future of Publishing

  Catherine Paul

  This hypermedia anthology constitutes the proceedings of a themed conference, the Colloquium on New Technology and the Future of Publishing (2001). In New Technology and the Future of Publishing (2002), contributors discuss the the current "crisis in scholarly communication" when new media are involved--as well as the many opportunities that have arisen alongside that crisis. Some essays highlight the innovative teaching strategies and interdisciplinary scholarship that new technologies have made possible. Others address some of the ways in which academic presses can now go beyond traditional publication programs, avoiding current pitfalls of print journals and books without incurring undue extra costs or sacrificing editorial standards or intellectual property rights. Still other essays examine the changes new technology has wrought on libraries. These issues and more are covered in this anthology.