Yeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats’s plays and those poems written as ‘texts for exposition’ of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937), the volume also spotlights ‘The Mask before The Mask’ numerous plays including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King’s Threshold, Calvary, The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats’s friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio broadcasts, the Chinese contexts for his writing of ‘Lapis Lazuli’. His self-renewal after The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, and the key occult epistolary exchange ‘Leo Africanus’, edited from MSS by Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper, is republished from the elusive Yeats Annual No. 1 (1982). The essays are by David Bradshaw, Michael Cade-Stewart, Aisling Carlin, Warwick Gould, Margaret Mills Harper, Pierre Longuenesse, Jerusha McCormack, Neil Mann, Emilie Morin, Elizabeth Müller and Alexandra Poulain, with shorter notes by Philip Bishop and Colin Smythe considering Yeats’s quatrain upon remaking himself and the pirate editions of The Land of Heart’s Desire. Ten reviews focus on various volumes of the Cornell Yeats MSS Series, his correspondence with George Yeats, and numerous critical studies. Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London. [Elib]

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The Mask before The Mask -- The King’s Threshold, Calvary, The Death of Cuchulain: Yeats’s Passion Plays -- To ‘make others see my dream as I had seen it’: Yeats’s Aesthetics in Cathleen ni Houlihan -- ‘Oxford Poets’: Yeats, T. S. Eliot and William Force Stead -- Playing with Voices and with Doubles in Two of Yeats’s Plays: The Words upon the Window-pane and A Full Moon in March -- The Mask of Derision in Yeats’s Prologue to A Vision (1937) -- A Vision and Yeats’s Late Masks -- The Mask of A Vision -- ‘I beg your pardon?’: W. B. Yeats, Audibility and Sound Transmission -- Mask and Robe: Yeats’s Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) and New Poems (1938) -- The Poem on the Mountain: A Chinese Reading of Yeats’s ‘Lapis Lazuli’ -- The Manuscript of ‘Leo Africanus’, Reprinted from Yeats Annual 1 -- ‘My Dear Miss Brachvogel...’ A Ms Version of a Yeats Quatrain -- The Land Of Heart’s Desire: Some Hitherto Unrecorded Printings – ‘Work in Progress’ -- Wheels and Butterflies: Title, Structure, Cover Design -- W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, Where there is Nothing and The Unicorn from the Stars: Manuscript Materials, ed. Wim Van Mierlo -- The King’s Threshold: Manuscript Materials, edited by Declan Kiely -- W. B. Yeats, At The Hawk’s Well and The Cat and the Moon: Manuscript Materials, ed. Andrew Parkin -- Karen E. Brown, The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880–1939 -- W. B. Yeats and George Yeats, The Letters ed. Ann Saddlemyer; W. B. Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: Explications and Contexts, ed. Neil Mann, Matthew Gibson and Claire Nally -- Sean Pryor, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and the Poetry of Paradise -- Writings on Literature and Art: G. W. Russell – A.E., edited and with an Introduction by Peter Kuch -- Joseph M. Hassett, W. B. Yeats and the Muses -- Michael McAteer, Yeats and European Drama -- R. F. Foster, Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances