Prodigal Father Revisited : Artists and Writers in the World of John Butler Yeats,9780972228930

Prodigal Father Revisited : Artists and Writers in the World of John Butler Yeats

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ISBN13: 9780972228930
ISBN10: 0972228934
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Locust Hill Pr
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Author Biography

Janis Londraville is a fellow at the Center for Independent Scholars of the Associated Colleges of the Saint Lawrence Valley

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Janis Londraville
Preliminary Remarks xiii
Declan Foley
Andrew McGowan
Greetings xix
Michael Yeats
Acknowledgments xxi
Abbreviations xxiii
``John Butler Yeats at the Easel'' xxvii
Richard Londraville
Section One The Yeats Family
John Butler Yeats
3(8)
Van Wyck Brooks
The Letters of John Butler Yeats: A Sampler
11(24)
William M. Murphy
John Butler Yeats and the Calumet
35(12)
Sam McCready
``Every Paddler's Heritage'': W.B. Yeats, Hans Christian Andersen, Susan Pollexfen Yeats, S.T. Coleridge and Children's Stories
47(54)
Maneck H. Daruwala
W.B. Yeats, J.B. Yeats, and ``Art without Imitation''
101(14)
Phillip L. Marcus
``Beautiful Lofty Things''
115(8)
Douglas Saum
Creating Cuala: Lily and Lollie Yeats and the Cuala Industries
123(26)
Maureen Murphy
Vision and Narrative in Jack B. Yeats's The Amaranthers
149(22)
Peter Miles
``Drawing into Oil'': John and Jack B. Yeats
171(22)
Hilary Pyle
Section Two Jeanne Robert Foster
John Butler Yeats's Poetic Advice to Jeanne Robert Foster
193(30)
Richard Londraville
``To Friends: For Jeanne Robert Foster''
223(2)
Arthur Nethaway Collins
``... Unquestionably the loveliest woman ever''
225(4)
Paul Londraville
Jeanne Robert Foster: Muse to the Muses
229(8)
Coral Crosman
The Excitement of an Afternoon Call: A Move Toward the Modern Voice in the Poetry of Jeanne Robert Foster
237(20)
Cathy Fagan
Section Three Art and Artists
John Quinn's Fight for Art
257(8)
Janis Londraville
Pilgrim Father, Native Son: John Butler Yeats, John Sloan, and the Making of a Friendship in New York City, 1909--1922
265(66)
Paul B. Franklin
Paul Swan: The Art of ``The Most Beautiful Man in the World''
331(20)
Janis Londraville
Section Four Writers and Dreamers, then and now
Ex-``Pathriots'': Florence Farr Emery and John Butler Yeats
351(24)
Josephine Johnson
Van Wyck Brooks and His Maestro, John Butler Yeats, or, The American Literary Renaissance
375(38)
Nancy Cardozo
Ezra Pound as ``Fictional'' Character in Richard Stern's Stitch
413(20)
David Garrett Izzo
Derek Mahon's JBY and the Genealogy of the Exile
433(14)
Lucy McDiarmid
Section Five Finale
John Butler Yeats [as written to William Butler Yeats]
447(34)
John Quinn
``In Memory of John Butler Yeats''
481(2)
Jeanne Robert Foster
About the Editor 483(2)
Contributors 485(6)
Index 491

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