Department of English lecturer, Dr Stanley Van der Ziel's essay on Shakespearean presences in W.B. Yeats's Purgatory has just been published in the new issue of Yeats’s Legacies: Yeats Annual No. 21 by Warwick Gould (ed.) Please access the book for free here or read on for further details.
Yeats Annual 21 boasts a collection of impressive essays connected by the theme of legacy, which take as their inspiration the two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the heritage of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions.
The issue ranges from Denis Donoghue’s unique family memories of 1916 to Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s versecraft to Anita Feldman’s analysis of Yeats’s responses to the Rising’s appropriation of his symbols and myths. Warwick Gould addresses Yeats’s role as founding Senator in the new Free State, while James Pethica looks at the evictions that preceded Yeats’s purchase of Thoor Ballylee in Galway and Laura Arrington compares Yeats, Ezra Pound and the Ghosts of The Winding Stair (1929) in Rapallo. Catherine Paul offers profound reflections on ‘Yeats and Belief’ and Grevel Lindop provides a pioneering view of Yeats’s impact on English mystical verse, while the issue also features Stanley van der Ziel’s work on the presence of Shakespeare in Yeats’s Purgatory and William O’Donnell’s examination of the vexed textual legacy of Yeats’s late work On the Boiler.