Yeats, coleridge and the romantic sage

Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 This page intentionally left blank Matthew Gibson 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage First published in Great Britain 2000 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library First published in the United States of America 2000 by ST MARTIN’S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y 10010 ISBN 0–312–23022–2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gibson, Matthew, 1967– Yeats, Coleridge, and the romantic sage / Matthew Gibson p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0–312–23022–2 (cloth) Yeats, W B (William Butler), 1865–1939—Knowledge—Literature Yeats, W B (William Butler), 1865–1939—Philosophy Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834—Philosophy Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834—Influence English poetry—19th century—History and criticism Romanticism—Great Britain Metaphysics in literature Philosophy in literature I Title PR5908.L5 G53 821'.8—dc21 2000 99–046990 © Matthew Gibson 2000 All rights reserved No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 ISBN 0–333–74625–2 Acknowledgements vi List of Abbreviations viii A Note on the Text xi Introduction Part I Personality Phantasmagoria: the Personality of Coleridge in the Earlier Prose of Yeats 11 ‘Escaped from Isolating Method’: Coleridge as Sage in Yeats’s 1930 Diary 29 Part II 55 Transcendence and Immanence Reason and Understanding: Coleridge’s Philosophical Influence on Yeats 57 ‘Wisdom, Magic, Sensation’: Coleridge’s ‘Supernatural’ Poems in the Later Poetry of Yeats 86 Part III Metaphor 115 ‘Natural Declension of the Soul’: Yeats and the Mirror 117 Towards ‘Berkeley’s Roasting Spit’: Coleridge and Metaphors of Unity 149 Conclusion 175 Appendix: Yeats’s Coleridge Collection 177 Notes 184 Bibliography 208 Index 216 v 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Contents I should like to extend thanks to the following for the help they have given me in preparing this book: Michael Baron, Carol Peaker, Svetlana Salowska, Deirdre Toomey and Anne Varty, all of whom, in different ways, have helped with either the collection of material or with the preparation of the manuscript Special thanks are due to the library of State University of New York at Stonybrook, and to John Kelly and Roger Nyle Parisious for providing me with copies of unpublished material Especial thanks, however, are due to Peter Lewis, for having read over earlier drafts of chapters and suggesting changes when I was first preparing this work as a doctoral dissertation, and, of course, to Warwick Gould for his substantial effort when supervising that initial thesis and for providing subsequent advice The author and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: The extracts from W B Yeats, Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955), Essays and Introductions (London and New York: Macmillan, 1961), Explorations, selected by Mrs W B Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1962; New York, Macmillan, 1963), The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W B Yeats, ed Peter Allt and Russell K Alspach (London and New York: Macmillan, 1966), are reproduced by permission of A P Watt Ltd, on behalf of Michael B Yeats The extracts from Yeats’s manuscript ‘Diary, begun at Rapallo’ (1930) are reproduced by permission of A P Watt Ltd, on behalf of Michael B Yeats and Anne Yeats The extracts from W B Yeats and T Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901–37, ed Ursula Bridge (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Oxford University Press, 1953), are reproduced by permission of Routledge The extracts from The Letters of W B Yeats, ed Allen Wade (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954; New York: Macmillan, 1955), together with vi 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements vii The extracts from A Vision by W B Yeats; copyright 1937 by W B Yeats; copyright renewed © 1965 by Bertha Georgie Yeats and Anne Butler Yeats, are reproduced by permission of Simon & Schuster The extracts from Mythologies by W B Yeats, copyright © 1959 by Mrs W B Yeats, are reproduced by permission of Simon & Schuster The extracts from Autobiographies by W B Yeats, copyright 1916, 1936 by Macmillan Publishing Company, copyrights renewed © 1944, 1964 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, are reproduced by permission of Simon & Schuster The extracts from Explorations by W B Yeats, copyright © 1962 by Mrs W B Yeats, are reproduced by permission of Simon & Schuster The extracts from Essays and Introductions by W B Yeats, copyright © 1961 Mrs W B Yeats, are reproduced by permission of Simon & Schuster The extracts from the poems ‘His Bargain’, ‘The Tower’, ‘An Acre of Grass’, ‘The Seven Sages’, ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, ‘Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931’, ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, ‘Byzantium’, ‘Vacillation’, ‘To Dorothy Wellesley’, ‘Supernatural Songs’, ‘The Phases of the Moon’ and ‘Long-legged Fly’ are reproduced by permission of Simon & Schuster from The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W B Yeats, ed Peter Allt and Russell K Alspach; copyright 1928 by Macmillan Publishing Company; copyrights renewed © 1956 by Georgie Yeats; copyright 1933, 1934 by Macmillan Publishing Company; copyright renewed © 1961, 1962 by Bertha Georgia Yeats; copyright 1940 by Georgie Yeats; copyright renewed © 1968 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, Michael Butler Yeats, and Anne Yeats The extracts from The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W B Yeats, ed Russell K Alspach, copyright © 1966 by Russell K Alspach, are reproduced by permission of Simon & Schuster Every effort has been made to trace all the copyright holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangement at the first opportunity 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 extracts from unpublished letters, are reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press viii List of Abbreviations The standard works by W B Yeats and S T Coleridge listed below are cited in the text by standard abbreviations, including volume number where appropriate, and page number Works listed here are not included in the Bibliography at the end of the book Yeats Au AV B CM Col L1,3 CV A E&I Ex L LTSM Mem Myth MYV1,2 Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955) A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1962) W B Yeats: A Census of the Manuscripts, by Conrad A Balliet with the assistance of Christine Mawhinney (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1990) The Collected Letters of W B Yeats, vol 1: 1865–1895, ed John Kelly and Eric Domville; vol 3: 1901–4, ed John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, 1994) A Critical Edition of Yeats’s A Vision (1925), ed George Mills Harper and Walter Kelly Hood (London: Macmillan, 1978) Essays and Introductions (London and New York: Macmillan, 1961) Explorations, sel Mrs W B Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963) The Letters of W B Yeats, ed Allan Wade (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954; New York: Macmillan, 1955) W B Yeats and T Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901–1937, ed Ursula Bridge (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Oxford University Press, 1953) Memoirs: Autobiography – First Draft, journal transcribed and edited by Denis Donoghue (London: Macmillan, 1972; New York: Macmillan, 1973) Mythologies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1959) The Making of Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: A Study of the Automatic Script, by George Mills Harper, vols (London: Macmillan, 1987) viii 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 List of Abbreviations NC NLI MS OBMV UPAN UP1 UP2 VP VPl VSR WWB1,2,3 YA YAACTS YL ix A New Commentary on the Poems of W B Yeats, by A Norman Jeffares (London: Macmillan, 1984) Manuscript, National Library of Ireland (to be followed by number) The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1895–1935, chosen by W B Yeats (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936) The Ten Principal Upanishads, trans Shree Purohit Swa ¯mi and W B Yeats (London and Boston: Faber & Faber, 1937) Uncollected Prose by W B Yeats, vol 1, ed John P Frayne (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1970) Uncollected Prose by W B Yeats, vol 2, ed John P Frayne and Colton Johnson (London: Macmillan, 1975; New York: Columbia University Press, 1976) The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W B Yeats, ed Peter Allt and Russell K Alspach (New York: Macmillan, 1957) To be cited from the corrected third printing of 1966 or later printings The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W B Yeats, ed Russell K Alspach assisted by Catherine C Alspach (London and New York: Macmillan, 1966) To be cited from the corrected second printing of 1966 or later printings The Secret Rose, Stories by W B Yeats: A Variorum Edition, ed Warwick Gould, Phillip L Marcus and Michael J Sidnell (London: Macmillan, 1992) To be cited from this second edition, revised and enlarged from the 1981 Cornell University Press edition The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, ed with lithographs of the illustrated ‘Prophetic Books’, and a memoir and interpretation by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, vols (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893) Yeats Annual, ed Warwick Gould (London: Macmillan, 1982– ), to be followed by volume number Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 4, ed Richard J Finneran (Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1986), to be followed by volume number Edward O’Shea, A Descriptive Catalog of W B Yeats’s Library (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 List of Abbreviations Powell, Grosvenor E., ‘Yeats’s Second “Vision”: Berkeley, Coleridge, and the Correspondence with Sturge Moore’, Modern Language Review, 76 (1981), 273–90 Ritvo, Rosemary Puglia, ‘A Vision B: The Plotinian Metaphysical Basis’, Review of English Studies, 26 (1975), 34 – 46 Rogers, William Elford, ‘Yeats’s “Long-legged Fly” and Coleridge’s “Biographia Literaria” ’, Concerning Poetry, 8:1 (Spring 1975) Stallworthy, Jon, ‘W B Yeats and Wilfred Owen’, Critical Quarterly, 11 (1969), 198–215 (b) Secondary sources on Coleridge Bate, Walter Jackson, Coleridge (New York: Macmillan; London: CollierMacmillan, 1968) Beer, John, Coleridge the Visionary (London: Chatto and Windus, 1959) ——, Coleridge’s Poetic Intelligence (London: Macmillan, 1977) Coleman, Deirdre, Coleridge and the Friend (1809–10) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988) Hamilton, Paul, Coleridge’s Poetics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983) Jaspers, David, Coleridge as Poet and Religious Thinker (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985) Kessler, Edward, Coleridge’s Metaphors of Being (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979) Leask, Nigel, The Politics of Imagination: Coleridge’s Critical Thought (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1988) McNiece, Gerald, The Knowledge that Endures: Coleridge, German Philosophy and the Logic of Romantic Thought (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992) Morrow, John, Coleridge’s Political Thought: Property, Morality and the Limits of Traditional Discourse (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1990) Piper, H W., The Singing of Mount Abora: Coleridge’s Use of Biblical Imagery and Natural Symbolism in Poetry and Philosophy (Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1987) Richards, I A., Coleridge on Imagination (London: Kegan & Paul, 1934) Rookmaaker, H R., Towards a Romantic Conception of Nature: Coleridge’s Poetry up to 1803 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1984) Tave, Katharine Bruner, The Demon and the Poet: An Interpretation of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ according to Coleridge’s Demonological Sources (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1983) Wheeler, Kathleen, Sources, Processes and Methods in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne and Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1980) ——, The Creative Mind in Coleridge’s Poetry (London: Heinemann Educational, 1981) de Man, Paul, Blindness and Insight: Essay in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, 2nd (revised) edn (London: Methuen, 1984) ——, Romanticism, Pragmatism and Deconstruction (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993) 10.1057/9780230286498 - 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Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 214 Bibliography Bibliography 215 (e) Manuscripts Yeats, W B., Notebook labelled ‘Private’, ‘begun at Rapallo’, 1930 –[1931], NLI MS 30354 ([CM 184], Copy at State University of New York at Stonybrook) 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 ——, Pages from a Diary written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (Dublin: Cuala Press, 1944) ——, The Senate Speeches of W B Yeats, ed Donald R Pearce (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960; London: Faber & Faber, 1961) Abbey Theatre, 44 Abrams, M H., 119–21, 149, 200, 204 Achilles, 77 Adams, Hazard, Adams, Henry, 196 Aeneas, 77 Aeschylus, 113 ‘Ahasuerus’, 35, 36, 39, 41, 42, 51, 86–7 Akenside, Mark, 152, 205 Alcibiades, 168 Alexander the Great, 168 Alexander, Samuel, 142, 203 Alspach, Russell K., 198 Anima Mundi, 11, 12, 130, 189 Archibald, Douglas, 185 Aristotle, 120, 122, 132 Armstrong, Isobel, 184 Arnold, Matthew, 3, 25–6, 40, 191 Empedocles on Etna, 145, 192 Essays in Criticism, 184 Merope, 188 Arnold, Thomas, 185 Associationism, 1, 130, 131–2 Attis cult, 105 Bacon, Sir Francis, 41, 181 Balzac, Honore de, 30, 69, 127 Bate, Walter Jackson, 7, 184, 201, 202 Baudelaire, Charles, 1, 26, 46, 125 Beardsley, Monroe, 24 –5 Beckford, William, 185 Beer, John, 91, 108, 187, 198 Bergson, Henri, 142, 203 Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne, 43, 52– 4, 58, 61, 66, 86–7, 111, 131, 174, 178, 181, 189, 195, 202, 203 ‘esse est percipi’, 194 idealist philosophy of, 29–30, 31–2, 43, 53– 4, 113, 137–8, 139– 44 and Platonism, 168–70 as sage, 33– 4, 52, 84, 176 and spirit, 151 The Commonplace Book, 189, 206 Siris, 79, 150 Blake, William, 1, 2, 12, 17, 36, 41, 54, 83, 127, 167, 176, 178, 179, 186, 205 the Four Zoas, 150 –1, 158–9 illustrations to the Divine Comedy, 15–16, 149, 181, 186, 204 ‘The Mental Traveller’, 158 mirror in, 122–3 Bloom, Harold, 1, 6–7, 88–9, 119, 185, 198 Body of Fate, 37, 54, 158 Boehme, Jacob, 4, 122, 178 Boethius, 178 Bornstein, George, 1, 99, 102, 106, 199 Browning, Robert, 24, 26 Brutus (Roman Senator), 77 Buddhism (Hinayana), 141 Burke, Edmund, 58, 61, 76, 180, 196 as sage, 32– 4, 52 An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 29–30 Reflections on the Revolution in France, 72–3, 195 ‘Speech from the Throne’, 196–7 Burnett, Sir Thomas, 101 Burns, Robert, 13 Byron, Lord, 20, 146 Cabalism, 112, 150, 158, 160, 197, 200, 204 Caesar ( Julius), 166, 168, 206 Calkins, Mary Whitton, 142–3, 203 Campbell, James Dykes, 177, 182, 197, 205 216 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Index Carlyle, Thomas, 3, 36, 48–9, 117, 184 Cato, 77 Celestial Body, 62, 64, 66–7, 81, 168, 170, 173– 4, 182 Charpentier, John Coleridge the Sublime Somnambulist, 32, 46–9, 53, 64, 86, 87, 11, 140, 177, 182, 183, 189, 191 Chatterjee, Mohini, 78 Christ, 38, 40, 87, 168, 191 Church of England, 92, 117, 155 Coleman, Deirdre, 70, 72, 73, 195, 196 Coleridge, Derwent, 24 Coleridge, Ernest H., 3, 184, 197 Coleridge, Herbert N., 184, 187 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Themes: analysis and synthesis, 206 as Berkeleian, 31–2, 43, 87, 111, 140, 169–70 and Christianity, 25, 27, 185 Imagination, 165–6, 174, 207 Imagination/Fancy distinction, 46, 149–50, 204 at Highgate, 4, 33– 4, 47–9, 157, 193 and Kant, 63– 4, 180, 182 in Lyrical Ballads, 19, 45–6 and mysticism, 4, 14, 16, 24, 157–65 as passive poet, 20, 27, 45–6 as philosopher, 5, 43– 4, 46, 49, 52, 57–85, 179 as political thinker, 30 –1, 57–8, 67–78 as post-Kantian, 63– 4, 66, 206 as proto-Aesthete, 14, 17, 24 –7, 44, 52, 101 as proto-Symbolist 3, 15–16, 17, 26, 32, 46 Reason and Understanding, 46, 58, 62–7, 69–78, 84, 171–3, 182 as sage, 5, 33–5, 42–6, 48–9, 88, 104, 113, 117, 174 and Wordsworth, 4, 17, 19, 21, 41 217 Works: prose volumes Aids to Reflection, 3, 64, 117, 184, 187, 200 Anima Poetae, 3, 23– 4, 184 Biographia Epistolaris, 177 Biographia Literaria, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 19, 23, 27, 46, 57, 175, 177, 179, 180 –1, 183, 185, 186, 188, 189, 194, 195, 196, 202, 205, 206–7 imagination in, 150, 165–6, 174, 207 mirror-metaphor in, 117, 121, 131–3, 135–6 water-insect in, 165–6, 169, 174, 206–7 Collected Letters, 201 Collected Poems, 83, 90 –1, 94, 99–100, 106, 107–8, 112, 155, 156–7, 177, 199, 204 Essays on his Times, 189 The Friend (1818), 4, 31, 46, 58, 62–7, 69–73, 76, 166, 169, 171–3, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181–2, 183, 184, 195, 196–7, 206, 207 Lectures on Politics and Religion, 92 Notebooks, 24 On the Constitution of Church and State, 4, 185 Table Talk, 3, 4, 14, 117, 158, 161–2, 178, 182, 184, 187–8 Treatise on Method, 66, 171 The Watchman, 2, 180 essays ‘Blessed are Ye who Sow beside All Waters’, 177, 180, 181 ‘Pitt and Bonaparte’, 189 ‘The Statesman’s Manual’, 177, 180 –1 poems ‘The British Stripling’s Warsong’, 188 ‘Christabel’, 5, 32, 41, 86–7, 107–13, 178, 185 ‘Dejection, Ode on’, 204 ‘The Eolian Harp’, 156–7 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Index ‘Fears in Solitude’, 30, 49, 57, 87, 180, 189 ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Ode to’, 178 ‘Hexameters, Written during a Temporary Blindness’, 31, 43, 49, 189 ‘Kubla Khan’, 5, 24 –6, 32, 41, 44, 86–7, 89–99, 113, 188 ‘Phantom’, 23 ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, 5, 21, 25–6, 27, 32, 44, 86–7, 92, 99–107, 113, 178 ‘Sunset’, 198 ‘To a Gentleman’, 204 ‘What is Life?’, 83–5, 197 Coleridge, Sara, 24 Colmer, John, 185 Commodus, 25 Common Sense philosophy, 58, 136 Coptic Christianity, 163 Creative Mind, 37, 59–60, 158, 160, 165, 182 Cretan civilisation, 74 Croce, Benedetto, 136 Cudworth, Henry, 101 Cullingford, Elizabeth, 30, 69, 189, 195, 199 Daimon (of A Vision), 37, 53, 66, 79, 103, 158, 160, 161, 173, 174, 187 Dana, Irish Goddess, 159 Dante, 152, 204 Darwin, Erasmus, 101 D’Avanzo, Mario L., 165, 167, 205 Davitt, Michael, 133– de la Mare, Walter, 87 de Lisle Adam, Villiers, 15–16, 17 de Loutherby, 185 de Man, Paul, 118, 200 des Esseintes’, 125 Dickens, Charles, 201 Dionertes (automatic speech control), 29 Disraeli, Benjamin, 117 Donoghue, Denis, 102, 109 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 201 Dowden, Edward, 153– 4, 176 Dowson, Ernest, 24 –6, 27, 52 Duhem, Pierre, 75, 197 Dulac, Edmund, 29 Echo, theory of, 6, 88–90; see also Hollander, John Egypt, Ancient, 74 –5 Eliot, George, 201 Eliot, T S., 142, 203 Ellis, Edwin J., 14, 122, 150, 154 Ellis, Steve, 204 Ellman, Richard, 105, 199 Empedocles, 83 Empiricism, 120 –1, 126–7, 131– 4, 140 Engell, James, Enlightenment, the, 29, 77, 119, 120 Etruscan Cosmogony, 75, 197 Farnell, Richard Lewis, 3, 199 Fascism, 71 Ferguson, Sir Samuel, 13, 152, 154 –5, 156 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 63 Ficino, Marsilio, 121 Fixler, Michael J., 125, 201 Flaubert, Gustave, 127–30, 193, 201 Flaxman, 178 Foley, T P., 188 Foster, Roy, 176, 207 Fox, George, 57 Fragonard, 33, 193 French Revolution, 71–2, 77 Freudianism, 89 Fricker, Sara, 155 Frobenius, Leo, 71 Furies, 109, 110, 112–13 Garnett, Richard, 123 Gentile, Giovanni, 136 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 178 Gillman, James, 48 ‘Giraldus’, 29 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 218 Index Gladstone, Sir William, 176, 185 Gnosticism, 82, 150, 197 Goethe, 20, 123 Gogarty, Oliver St John, 29 Goldsmith, Oliver, 20, 29, 52 Gonne, Maud, 152, 153, 155–6, 158–9, 160, 186 Gore-Booth, Eva, 51 Gorski, William T., 205 Gosse, Edmund, 192 Gould, Warwick L., 185 Grant, Robert McQueen, 197 Green, Joseph Henry, 3, 178, 182, 184 Gregory, Lady Augusta, 33, 44, 69, 96, 158, 198 Gregory, Major Robert, 42, 146 Grossman, Allen R., 204 Hafiz (and his Rubaiyat), 34, 193 Hallam, Arthur Henry, 16–17, 26, 186, 187, 188 Harper, George Mills, 127, 191 Harrington, James, 195 Harris, Frank, 202 Hartley, David, 32, 57, 101, 121, 173, 180, 181, 189, 205, 206 in Biographia Literaria, 131–3, 135–6, 144, 148, 155, 201 Harwood, John, 186 Haskell, Denis, 206 Hastings, James, 197, 198 Healey, T Jeremiah, 191 Heard, Gerald, 62, 74, 76, 195, 196 Hegel, and Hegelianism, 3, 54, 78 Heraclitus, 97–8, 102, 104 Hobbes, Thomas, 120, 132 Hollander, John, 6, 88–90, 119, 157, 185, 198 Holloway, John, 49, 117–18, 193, 199, 200 Holmes, Richard, 2, 176 Homer, 13, 93, 97 Hood, Walter Kelly, 127 Hooker, Richard, 69 Hone, J M and Rossi, M M., 35, 141, 168, 191, 195 219 Hugo, Victor, 13 Hugues, Clovis, 152 Hurd, Bishop, 120 Husk, 65, 67, 79, 81, 102, 150, 151, 173, 187 Huysmans, J K de, 125, 201 Hyde, Douglas, 14 Impressionism, 26 Irish Agrarian Movement, 134 Irish Dramatic Movement, 45 Irish National Theatre, 18 Irish Republican Movement, 134 Iser, Wolfgang, 3, 184 Italian idealism, 182 Jackson, J R de J., 184, 186 Jacobi, 65 Jacobinism, 189, 196 James, Henry, 11 James, William, 142 Jeffares, A N., 93, 185, 199 Jefferson, Ann, 126, 201 Johnson, Lionel, 11, 16–17, 25–7, 52, 182, 185 Johnson, Samuel, 35, 120, 122, 191, 200 Jonson, Ben, 120 Joubert, Joseph, 3, 184, 193 Joyce, James, 141–2, 203 Joyce, R D., 13–14, 16, 17 Judwalis (or Diagrammatists), 98 Kant, Immanuel, 32, 69, 87, 131, 182, 189, 196 analysis and synthesis, 206 Reason and Understanding, 58, 63– Critique of Pure Reason, 194, 206 Kantianism, 180 Keats, John, 1, 5, 20, 36, 123, 184, 191 Kessler, Edward, 188 Kiberd, Declan, 198 Kingsley, Charles, 188 Lalor, James Fintan, 134 Lane, Sir Hugh, 69, 93 Lewis, Matthew, 187 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Index 220 Index McDowell, Colin, 53, 187, 193, 194, 197, 199 MacKenna, Steven, 60, 201 Mackintosh, James, 131–2, 194 McNiece, Gerald, 63, 194 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 26, 32– 4, 44, 47, 190 Markiewicz, Constance, 51 Martyn, Sir Edward, 69 Marx, Karl, 78 Mask (in A Vision), 37, 54, 60, 154, 161, 168 Mathers, S L Macgregor, 118, 158, 163, 200, 204 as sage, 36, 38 ‘Michael Robartes’, 124 –6, 167, 200, 201, 204 –5 Michelangelo, 51, 166, 167, 206 Milton, John, 89, 155, 184, 204 Mokashi-Punekar, Shankar, 53, 66, 193, 195 Moore, G E., 136– 41, 143, 148, 202, 203 Moore, T Sturge, 58, 64, 86, 136–8, 142, 143, 195, 202, 206 Moore, Virginia, 139, 201 More, Henry, 22–3, 101, 187 Morrow, John, 192 Morris H N (Swedenborgian), 178, 182 Morris, William, 19, 40, 192 ‘Motemuzeka’ (Noh play), 103 Muirhead, J H., 86, 179, 182, 183, 184, 185, 194 Mussolini, 30, 71 Napoleon, 70, 72, 78 Necessitarianism, 32, 87, 91–2, 101, 198, 201 Neo-Platonism, 4, 50, 57, 87, 97, 100, 199 in theory of Echo, 89 in A Vision (1937), 53, 60 –1, 64 –7, 168, 198 transcendental mirror of, 121, 123 Neo-realism, 138– 40 Newman, Cardinal, 117 Newton, Sir Isaac, 101 Niam (Irish Goddess), 159 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 22, 200 O’Connor, Frank, 175 Oedipus, 32, 38, 44, 45, 46, 189, 191 O’Higgins, Kevin, 198 Olney, James, 186 O’Shea, Edward, 177–80, 183 Otway, Thomas, 192 Ovid, 89 Owen, Wilfred, 145, 203 Palladius, 33, 193 Palmer, Norman Dunbar, 202 Panofsky, Erwin, 118 Parisious, Roger Nyle, 177 Passionate Body, 60, 65, 67, 79, 81, 102, 151, 173, 187 Patanjali, 108, 109 Pater, Walter, 184, 187, 203 and Aestheticism, 3, 12, 16 as sage, 36 Patmore, Coventry, 177, 179, 181 Pearse, Patrick, 146 Percy, Bishop, 19, 21, 187 Perloff, Marjorie, 97, 198 Petrarch, 193 Petrie, W M Flinders, 62, 74 –6, 78, 195 Piper, H W., 91, 101, 108, 198 Pirandello, Luigi, 64 Pitt the Younger, William, 189 Plato, 50, 58, 63, 69, 121, 178, 200 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Lewis, P Wyndham, The Apes of God, 64, 73– 4, 197 The Enemy, 203 Time and Western Man, 142–3, 203 Le Fanu, J Sheridan, 11, 185–6 Locke, John, 61, 127, 132, 148, 202 mirror of empiricism, 119–20 primary and secondary qualities, 137, 140, 142, 143 Lowes, J L., 100, 101 Luther, Martin, 72 Index Quinn, John, 27, 29, 57, 184 Quintillian, 88 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 181 Read, Herbert, 110, 145, 146, 150 Rhymers’ Club, 17 Rhys, Ernest, 200 Ritvo, Rosemary Puglia, 60 –1, 194 Robb, Nesca, 118, 200 Robinson, Henry Crabb, 48, 186 Rogers, William Elford, 165–6, 205 Rookmaaker, Howard R., 100, 199 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 25 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 70, 72, 73, 77, 120, 195, 196 Ruskin, John, 137–8, 202 Russell, Bertrand, 136, 137–8, 141, 202 Russell, George, 161, 164 Sage (of A Vision), 37, 53, 66, 79, 103, 158, 160, 161, 173, 174, 187 Saint Anthony, 33, 38, 48, 190, 193 Saint Augustine, 88 Saint Bernard, 84 Saint John, 188 Saint Paul, 181, 188 Saint Teresa, 105 Saint Thomas Aquinas, 23 Sainte-Beuve, 18 Schelling, Friedrich J., 63, 66, 87 Schiller, Friedrich, 122, 178 Schlegel, Friedrich von, 63, 87 Schneider, Hermann, 76 Scott, Sir Walter, 13 Shakespear, Olivia, 54, 189, 203 Shakespeare, 24, 40, 122, 184, 186, 206 Hamlet, 169, 171–3 Henry IV, Pt 1, 172 Romeo and Juliet, 169, 173 Shelley, P B, 1, 2, 5, 13, 14, 17, 20, 25, 117–18, 122, 150 –1, 156, 176, 188, 191, 198, 200 ‘Adonais’, 123– 4, 200 Defence of Poetry, 123, 154 –5, 204 ‘Hellas’, 35, 41, 86 ‘Ode to the West Wind’, 86 ‘Prince Athanase’, 39, 204 Prometheus Unbound, 98, 199, 200 ‘Queen Mab’, 35 ‘The Revolt of Islam’, 35, 39, 93– Sidnell, Michael J., 203 Smart, Christopher, 146 Snukal, Robert, 1, 119, 184, 200, 201 Socrates, 120 Sophocles, 40, 44 Spengler, Oswald, 71 Spenser, Edmund, 24 Spinoza, 27, 181, 188 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Timaeus, 22, 121, 200 Republic, 120 Symposium, 121 Byzantine Academy of, 104 Platonism, 53, 57, 87, 113, 173, 187 in ‘Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931’, 97–9 in theory of art, 121 of Shelley, 124 Plotinus, 73, 93, 97, 121, 186 and A Vision (1937), 60 –2, 64 –7, 104 Plutarch, 75 Poe, Edgar Allan, 125 Polybius, 68 Porphyry, 93, 97, 198 Post-Kantianism, 63– 4, 66, 206 Potter, Stephen, 178 Pound, Ezra, 29, 142, 191, 192, 203 Cantos, 141, 143, 203 Powell, Grosvenor E., 65, 139, 202 Priestley, Joseph, 32, 185, 198, 201 and Hartley’s Doctrine of Vibrations, 101, 131, 133, 144 Proust, Marcel, 141 Pulos, Christos E., 200 Puttenham, George, 88 Pythagoras, 74, 187 221 Stallworthy, Jon, 102, 103, 199, 203 Stein, Gertrude, 142 Stendhal, 122, 126–30, 136, 141 Sterling, John, 184 Strachey, Lytton, 74 Stratford-upon-Avon, 123 Strong, Eugenie, 103 Stylites, St Simeon, 38 Swami, Shri Purohit, 78 Swedenborg, Emanuel, 4, 14, 16, 23, 36, 38, 54, 185 ‘marriage of the angels’, 161–5, 205 as primary Sage in A Vision (1925), 36, 38, 129–30 Swift, Jonathan, 32, 43, 52, 57, 179, 180, 181, 194 ‘Discourse’, 29, 30 –1, 64, 68–9, 71–2, 195 Epitaph, 190 Yeats’s portrayal of, 77–8 as sage, 33– 4, 76 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 185 Symons, Arthur, 26, 32, 86, 188 Synge, J M., 20 –1, 27, 33, 44 –5, 187, 203 Poems and Translations, 193 ‘Riders to the Sea’, 192 Tave, Katherine Bruner, 100, 199 Taylor, Thomas, 178 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 16–17, 24, 26, 187 Thirteenth Cone, 5, 53, 54, 60, 67, 76, 84, 102, 103, 169, 170 Thomas of Durlowicz, 37 Thomson, James, 205 ‘Tiresias’, 33, 45, 46, 48, 190 Todhunter, John, 176 Torchiana, Donald T., 30, 139, 186, 188, 195, 202 Trinitarianism, 87 Turner, Walter J., 110, 146, 150 Unitarianism, 2, 87, 91–2, 101, 103, 131 United Ireland, 152 United Irishman, 153 Unity of Being, 26, 37, 49, 84, 113, 129, 135–6, 147, 157, 162, 204 Unity of Culture, 19, 26, 27, 46, 93 Upanishads, the, 78–85 Mandukya Upanishad, 78, 81, 83, 87 Prasna Upanishad, 79, 83 Vaughan, Henry, 200 Vico, Giambattista, 69, 78 Victim (of A Vision), 37, 38, 39, 41, 44, 73, 173, 176, 191, 192 Vlasopolos, Anca, 1, 3, 184, 205 Von Hügel, 103, 105, 107 Waley, Arthur, 206 war poets, 145–7, 148 Warburton, Bishop, 120 Wellesley, Dorothy, 107–13, 147, 199 Wheeler, Kathleen, 117–18, 188, 200 –1 Whitehead, Alfred N., 142, 143, 203 Wilde, Oscar, Will, 37, 39, 60, 61, 174 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 178 Wordsworth, William, 5, 13–14, 17, 31, 38, 41, 58, 91, 178 The Excursion, 35, 40, 41, 87, 191 Lyrical Ballads, 19, 21, 25, 26, 27, 188 The Prelude, 149 Yeats, George, 37, 192 Yeats, J B., 152– 4, 156, 157, 204 Yeats, W B., Collected prose volumes: Autobiographies, 11, 24 –6, 27, 38–9, 45, 57, 92, 112, 129, 130, 134 –6, 152, 161–2, 180, 188, 193 Correspondence, with T Sturge Moore, 58, 64, 136– 40, 142, 180, 202, 206 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 222 Index A Critical Edition of Yeats’s A Vision (1925), 22, 26, 34, 113, 127–8, 130, 136, 144, 147, 157, 158, 160 –1, 164, 191; Sage and Victim in, 36–7, 38, 39 Essays and Introductions, 18, 20 –1, 22, 27, 36, 40, 41, 46, 53– 4, 79, 82, 83, 84, 86, 93, 97, 98, 118, 123, 127, 140, 141– 4, 150, 151, 159–6, 169–70, 172– 4, 176, 181, 186, 187, 188, 192, 193, 204, 205, 206 Explorations, 18–19, 21, 24, 27, 34 –5, 39– 40, 41–2, 42–6, 48–9, 52, 57–8, 61, 64, 68–9, 71–2, 74, 78, 79, 84, 98, 111, 117, 127, 129, 140, 150, 151, 158, 168, 180, 192, 204 Letters (includes new Collected Edition), 18, 54, 163, 189, 203 Letters to Dorothy Wellesley, 110, 111–12, 199 Memoirs, 12, 36 Mythologies, 22–3, 36, 42, 79, 105, 112, 123, 128–9, 130, 136, 160, 164, 168, 174, 205 Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 42, 86–7, 98, 110, 122, 145–7, 14, 150, 192, 199, 203 Senate Speeches, 198 The Ten Principal Upanishads, 78–9, 82 Uncollected Prose, 13–14, 17, 119, 123, 152, 154, 188, 200, 205 Variorum Secret Rose (second edition), 124 –6, 129 A Vision (1937) (includes general references to A Vision), 5, 6, 29, 49, 53, 87, 97, 98, 102–3, 119, 148, 151, 158, 161, 165, 174, 176, 182, 192, 194, 201, 206; cyclical theories of, 223 73–5, 76–7; and Plotinus, 60 –2, 65, 67; and Upanishads, 79–81, 83– Works of William Blake, 14, 122, 150, 159, 204 Yeats’s Vision Papers, 11–12, 37, 38, 102 Collected poetry and plays: Variorum Plays, 36, 77–8 Variorum Poetry, 12, 35, 42, 50 –2, 74, 92–3, 94, 96, 98, 102–6, 109–13, 124, 163, 190 –1, 193, 199, 204, 205 Individual poetry volumes: The Wild Swans at Coole, 200 The Wind among the Reeds, 13, 158–9, 186, 205 The Winding Stair, 53, 106 Essays, articles and smaller prose works: Autobiography, 181, 198 ‘Bishop Berkeley’, 35, 53– 4, 67, 87, 141–5, 168–70, 181 ‘The Completed Symbol’, 40, 59, 67, 77, 102, 170 ‘Dove or Swan’, 104, 144, 168 ‘Discoveries’, 6, 36, 118, 159–60, 186 Estrangement, ‘Fighting the Waves, Introduction to’, 98, 127 ‘Gods and Fighting Men, Introduction to’, 158 ‘Great Year of the Ancients’, 41, 76, 168 ‘The Holy Mountain’, 82 ‘Ideas of Good and Evil’, 18 ‘An Indian Monk’, 41, 84, 86, 99 ‘Ireland after Parnell’, 38, 152, 161, 163, 164, 193 ‘J M Synge and the Ireland of his Time’, 20 –1, 45–6 ‘Journal written in 1909’, 36 ‘Literature and the Living Voice’, 18–19, 45–6 ‘Louis Lambert’, 127 10.1057/9780230286498 - Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, Matthew Gibson Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-18 Index ‘The Mandukya Upanishad’, 83, 87, 151 ‘The New Speranza’ 152 ‘On the Boiler’, 35 ‘Pages from a Diary’, 6, 29–35, 39– 46, 48, 52, 57–8, 61–2, 64 –5, 66, 69, 71–3, 74, 75–7, 79, 86, 206 Per Amica Silentia Lunae, 21– 4, 36, 42, 79, 105, 118, 123, 128–9, 130 review of Beside the Fire, 14 review of Lionel Johnson’s Ireland, 16–17 review of R D Joyce, 13 review of Richard Garnett’s An Imaged World, 123 ‘Rosa Alchemica’, 124 –6, 128, 131 ‘The Stirring of the Bones’, 112, 133 ‘At Stratford-on-Avon’, 123 Swedenborg, Mediums and Desolate Places, 129 ‘Symbolism in Poetry’, 150 ‘The Soul in Judgement’, 78 ‘The Tragic Generation’, 24, 44, 45, 52 ‘The Trembling of the Veil’, 39, 57, 118, 129, 144, 154, 156, 180, 181 ‘William Blake and his Illustrations to the Divine Comedy’, 15–16, 122–3, 149, 181, 186, 204 ‘The Words upon the Windowpane, Introduction to’, 68 Individual poems: ‘An Acre of Grass’, 51–2, 206 ‘Ancestral Houses’, 92–5 ‘Blood and the Moon’, 106 ‘Byzantium’, 101– 4, 106 ‘Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931’, 96–9, 104, 206 ‘A Dialogue of Self and Soul’, 106 ‘To Dorothy Wellesley’, 109–13 ‘Easter 1916’, 146 ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’, 200 ‘The Fascination of What’s Difficult’, 160 ‘His Bargain’, 193 ‘In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markieiwicz’, 51 ‘An Irish Airman Foresees his Death’, 42, 145–6 ‘Long-legged Fly’, 165–8, 170, 173– 4, 205, 206 ‘The Madness of King Goll’, 204 ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, 150 ‘Michael Robartes and the Dancer’, 200 –1, 205 ‘Mongan Laments the Change that has come over his Beloved …’, 159 ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, 199 ‘The People’, 190 –1 ‘The Phases of the Moon’, 150, 200, 204 ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’, 185 ‘Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn’, 163 ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, 51 ‘The Seven Sages’, 52 ‘The Statues’, 193, 200 ‘Stream and Sun at Glendalough’, 194 ‘The Tower’, 50 –1, 52, 74, 193, 200 ‘Under the Round Tower’, 158 ‘Vacillation’, 103, 104 –7 ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’, 159, 176 ‘Words’, 160 Individual plays: The Hour-glass, 36 The Pot of Broth, 180 The Words upon the Windowpane, 77–8 Zarathustra, 144 Zen Buddhism, 144, 174, 200 10.1057/9780230286498 - 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