The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe

Klaus Peter Jochum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Bamberg.

The intellectual and cultural impact of British and Irish writers cannot be assessed without reference to their reception in European countries. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which W. B. Yeats has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of continental Europe. There is a remarkable split between the often politicized reception in Eastern European countries but also Spain on the one hand, and the more sober scholarly response in Western Europe on the other. Yeats's Irishness and the pre-eminence of his lyrical work have posed continuous challenges. Three further essays describe the widely divergent reactions to Yeats in his native Ireland, during his lifetime and up to the most recent years.

Series Editor's Preface, Elinor Shaffer Acknowledgements List of Contributors Timeline: European Reception of W. B. Yeats, Klaus Peter Jochum Introduction: The Yeatsian Reception of Europe and the European Reception of Yeats, Klaus Peter Jochum 1. Yeats in the Dutch-language Low Countries, Theo D'haen 2. The Reception of W. B. Yeats in France, Carle Bonafous-Murat 3. Yeats in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Klaus Peter Jochum 4. Lands of Desire: Yeats in Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country, 1920-1935, Jacqueline A. Hurtley 5. The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Italy, Fiorenzo Fantaccini 6. The Reception of Yeats's Works in Poland (1898-2004), Jolanta Dudek 7. The Reception of the Work of W. B. Yeats in Russia and Countries of the Former USSR, Roger Keys 8. 'The Hungarian of the West': Yeats's Reception in Hungary, Csilla Bertha 9. The Reception of Yeats in Croatia, Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan 10. The Reception of Yeats in Romania, Rodica Albu 11. Yeats's Early Irish Reception, 1882-1917, Eamonn Cantwell and Klaus Peter Jochum 12. The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Ireland, 1918-50, Nicholas Allen and Eamonn Cantwell 13. The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Ireland since 1950, Jonathan Allison 14. Epilogue: Yeats from Iceland to Turkey, Klaus Peter Jochum Bibliography Index.