• ISSN Print: 0278-7687
• ISSN Digital: 2054-3611

Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Yeats Annual is the leading scholarly journal on the poet, and it is described by Bernard O'Donoghue as ‘a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats.’ OBP is proud to work with the IES to make this renowned journal available to all to read free of charge.

• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Literature

The Living Stream: Yeats Annual No. 18

• Warwick Gould

This special issue of the renowned research-level Yeats Annual offers a tribute to the pioneering Yeats scholar, A. Norman Jeffares. Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, while other scholars offer essays on such topics as Yeats and the Colours of Poetry, Yeats’s Shakespeare, Yeats and Seamus Heaney, Raferty’s work of Yeats’s Thoor Ballylee, Edmund Dulac’s portrait of Mrs George Yeats, and The Tower as an anti-Modernist monument. Throughout, the essays are inflected with memories of Jeffares and his critical methods. The volume also includes reviews of recent editions and studies.

• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Literature

Yeats's Mask: Yeats Annual No. 19

• Margaret Mills Harper
• Warwick Gould

A special issue in this renowned research-level series, Yeats Annual 19 explores the concept of the Mask in Yeats’s plays and poems. The volume also includes studies of Yeats’s friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio broadcasts, and the Chinese contexts for his writing of ‘Lapis Lazuli’. As well as ten new reviews focusing on various volumes of the Cornell Yeats MSS series and his correspondence with George Yeats, this volume republishes the key occult epistolary exchange ‘Leo Africanus’, edited by Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper from the elusive Yeats Annual 1 (1982).

• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Literature

Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell: Yeats Annual No. 20

• Warwick Gould

This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College Cork/ESB International Annual W. B. Yeats Lectures Series (2003-2008) by Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Bernard O’Donoghue and Helen Vendler. Those that were available in pamphlet form are now collectors’ items, but here is the complete series. These revised essays cover such themes as Yeats and the Refrain, Yeats as a Love Poet, Yeats, Ireland and Europe, the puzzles he created and solved with his art of poetic sequences, and his long and crucial interaction with the emerging T. S. Eliot.

• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Literature

Yeats's Legacies: Yeats Annual No. 21

• Warwick Gould

The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which these advanced research essays find their theme.