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Words Upon the Windowpane

W. B. Yeats, Mary FitzGerald
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      Words upon the Window Pane, first staged in 1930, is W. B. Yeats's most powerful and brilliant dramatic exploration of the occult, in which he had a lifelong interest, and an affirmation of Anglo-Irish Protestant cultural ascendancy. Written at Lady Gregory's Coole Park estate, it features a séance in which Jonathan Swift's voice is projected through a medium. Like Yeats, Swift was both politician and poet, and taking Swift as his subject allowed Yeats to cloak a political message under personal character.Quite probably based on an obscure one-act play called Swift and Stella by Charles Edward Lawrence, Lady Gregory's editor, the play is centered on a romantic triangle involving Jonathan Swift and two women, Vanessa and Stella. Yeats's use of a séance as a frame permits him to compare the present with the past by putting twentieth-century Dubliners side by side with Swift's contemporaries. This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains transcriptions and photographic reproductions of the drafts of Words upon the Window Pane, with variant readings from proofs, typescripts, and notebook entries, as well as other materials pertaining to its writing, publication, and performance.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: W. B. Yeats, Mary FitzGerald EAN: 9780801440472 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 238 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-06-27 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry WIDTH: 168 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: poetry and poets

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      The late Mary FitzGerald was Professor of English and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
      Words upon the Window Pane, first staged in 1930, is W. B. Yeats's most powerful and brilliant dramatic exploration of the occult, in which he had a lifelong interest, and an affirmation of Anglo-Irish Protestant cultural ascendancy. Written at Lady Gregory's Coole Park estate, it features a séance in which Jonathan Swift's voice is projected through a medium. Like Yeats, Swift was both politician and poet, and taking Swift as his subject allowed Yeats to cloak a political message under personal character.Quite probably based on an obscure one-act play called Swift and Stella by Charles Edward Lawrence, Lady Gregory's editor, the play is centered on a romantic triangle involving Jonathan Swift and two women, Vanessa and Stella. Yeats's use of a séance as a frame permits him to compare the present with the past by putting twentieth-century Dubliners side by side with Swift's contemporaries. This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains transcriptions and photographic reproductions of the drafts of Words upon the Window Pane, with variant readings from proofs, typescripts, and notebook entries, as well as other materials pertaining to its writing, publication, and performance.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: W. B. Yeats, Mary FitzGerald EAN: 9780801440472 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 238 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-06-27 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry WIDTH: 168 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: poetry and poets

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      The late Mary FitzGerald was Professor of English and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

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