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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2022

Gregory Baker
Gregory Baker
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Catholic University of America, Washington DC

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Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones
 , pp. 291 - 300
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Index

Abbey Theatre 2n9, 91–93, 134n71, 137, 154–155
Æ (George William Russell) 13–14, 216–217
on Anna Livia Plurabelle (Joyce) 229
on Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory) 111
Aeschylus 80, 81
and Heaney 155n194
Jebb on 140
and Oisin (Yeats) 77
Prometheus Bound (Case trans.) 237
Agate, James 169
Aitken, William 253
Aldington, Richard 86
Allen, Nicholas 4
Amis, Kingsley 254
An Claidheamh Soluis (The Sword of Light) (periodical) 4n19, 15–16
An Comunn Gàidhealach 37
Anathemata, The (Jones) 46–47, 159–160, 183, 184–190, 192–194, 250–252, 254
“Angle-Land” 185–188
Anglicization 3–4, 14
and Ireland 52, 52–55
“The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland” (Hyde) 49–51
and Scotland 209
and Wales 42–43, 166, 174
Anglo-Irish (language) 52–53, 68, 163, 164, 202n44
Anglo-Welsh (language) 162–166
Anna Livia Plurabelle (Joyce) 229
Antigone (Sophocles) 153–156
Antigone, The Riot Act (Paulin) 154, 155
“Anything Can Happen” (Heaney) 155n196
Arbois de Jubainville, Marie Henri d’ 93n59, 132
Arendt, Hannah 236
Aristophanes, Frogs 80–81
Arnall, Father (in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man) 34
Arnold, Matthew
on English literature 241–242, 243
Hellenic styles of poetry 73–77
on Homer 100, 105–106
on Newman 63–65
“On the Modern Element in Literature” 56–57
on the Odyssey (Morris version) 110
Sohrab and Rustum 73–75
on Sophocles 131
Arte of English Poesy, The (Puttenham) 79
artistic freedom 128–131
Atkinson, Robert 16, 21–23
Auden, W. H. 192, 193n209
authentic translation
Woolf on 239–240see also mistranslation
Authoress of the Odyssey, The (Butler) 101
aversion and service, rites of 104–105
Babel, or The Past, Present, and Future of Human Speech (Paget) 203–204
ballad-poetry 64–65
Ballantyne, Archibald 110–111
Barnacle, Nora 117n211
Barnes, Ben 154
Barrès, Maurice 191
Barry, William Francis 14–16
Basic English 200–201, 229
Bell, Quentin 237
Bérard, Victor 103–104
Les Phéniciens et l’Odyssée 101
Bergson, Henri, An Introduction to Metaphysics 209n89, 220–221
Best, R. I. 93
Birth of Tragedy, The (Nietzsche) 133n64, 136
Blackie, John Stuart, On the Living Language of the Greeks 196
Blair, Hugh 62
Blair, Peter Hunter, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England 179–180
Bloom, Leopold (character in Joyce’s Ulysses) 96n83, 115, 117n211117–122
Bold, Alan 227n185
Bolgar, R. R. 8n44
Borges, Jorge Luis 121
Bridges, Robert 182
Britto 161
Browne, Rev. Henry Martyn, S. J. 29–31
Budgen, Frank 102
Bulwer-Lytton, Robert 241
Bunting, Basil 219
Burial at Thebes, The (Heaney) 153–156
Burke, Peter, Cultural Hybridity 236
Burns, Robert 214
Bush, Ron 100, 101
Bussell, Louis 183
Butcher, Samuel Henry 138–139
translation of the Odyssey 101, 102–104, 113
Butler, Samuel
prose versions of Homer 102–104
The Authoress of the Odyssey 101
Byrne, John Francis 117n211, 120
Carne-Ross, Donald 147–148
Case, Janet Elizabeth 237
Castle, Gregory 88
Catholic Church 20n113, 24n143, 29n170, 183n152see also Anathemata, The (Jones); Protestantism
“Celtic fringe” 5
Celtic revival 3–5, 197, 227
“Celtic USSR” 223n168
censorship
in England 131
in Ireland 91–92, 133, 148–, 151, 154
Challenge to the Highlander (Ramsay) 40
Chamber Music (Joyce) 89
Chapman, George 64
choruses, in Yeats’ Oedipus 143, 146–148
Chute, Rev. Desmond 183
Citizen (character in Joyce’s Ulysses) 114–115, 118, 121
Clark, David 145
Classical School of English Literature 72
Cleverdon, Douglas 182n148
Clonmel Chronicle (periodical), review of Oisin (Yeats) 72
Cochrane, Charles Norris 160, 176–177
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 232–233
Collingwood, R. G. 160, 176–177, 178–179
Collins, John Churton 241, 242
Commercial Calvinists 226–27n179
communism 197, 217–218, 223–224
compound epithets 79–82
Comyn, David, translation of Laoidh Oisín air Thír na n-Óg 69–70
Conroy, Gabriel (character in Joyce’s Dubliners) 91
conscience, right of 157, 167
Corkery, Daniel, The Hidden Ireland 207
Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn (MacDiarmid) 227–232
Cranly (character in Joyce’s Portrait) 117
Crawford, Robert 156
“creative joy” 2
Crewe Report 29–30, 36, 44–45
Criterion, The (publication) 198, 231
Cronin, Michael 50
Cruikshank, George 65n92
Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory) 107–110, 113–114
cultural appropriation 94
cultural hybridity 47, 104, 171–172, 176, 236
Cultural Hybridity (Burke) 236
cultural nationalism 5, 10, 12, 94, 155, 196–197, 228see also nationalism
Cusack, Michael “Citizen” 114
“Cyclops” see Ulysses (Joyce)
Cymru Fydd (Young Wales) movement 43–44
Dante Alighieri 2n10
D’Arcy, Rev. Martin 182n148
Davie, George 197
Davies, Ceri 42–43
Dawson, Christopher 187–188
“Day of the Rabblement, The” (Joyce) 89
De Coelesti Hierarchia (Pseudo-Dionysius) 96
“Dead, The” (Joyce) 91
Dedalus, Stephen (character)
in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Joyce) 31, 34–35
Saunders Lewis on 190n191
in Ulysses (Joyce) 35–36, 116–117, 120
Defence of Poesy (Sidney) 79
Deirdre (Ferguson) 61
Delphos: The Future of International Language (Pankhurst) 221–223
democratic intellectualism 196–197
Devane, Rev. R. S. 149
Dickens, Charles 65n92
Donoghue, Denis 88–89
Doric (language) 40, 198, 211–212see also Lallans
Dowden, Edward 244, 245–248
Doyle, Aidan 29n170
Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, A (MacDiarmid) 195, 212–214, 232
Dubliners (Joyce) 91n39
Dutt, Rajani Palme 224n171
Edwards, Owen Morgan 45
Edwards, Rev. Lewis 46
Eglinton, John (William Kirkpatrick Magee) 134
Electra (Sophocles) (Jebb trans.) 139
Elementary Education Acts (1870–1893) 198–199
Eliot, T. S.
on Gilbert Murray 133n66
and the Homer debate 100–101
and MacDiarmid 198, 231–232
on Ulysses (Joyce) 85–87, 88–89
Ellis, T. E. 43
Ellmann, Richard 98
“English Ascendancy in British Literature” (MacDiarmid) 198–200
English (language)
Basic English 200–201, 229
standardization of 200–204
study of 9–10, 198–199, 241–243, 244–248, 255–256
Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (1931) 198–200see also Anglicization; Anglo-Irish; Anglo-Welsh; synthetic language
epithets, compound 79–82, 115–116
Erskine, Ruaraidh 37–39, 211
Ervine, St. John 202–205
ἔθνος/ethnicity 96–97
Euripides
Hippolytus 132–133
Jebb on 140
Nietzsche on 133n64
Evans, Geraint 169–170
Eve of Saint John, The (Lewis) 163
fascism 152, 172–173, 223–224
Ferguson, Sir Samuel 61
Congal 89–90n33
Deirdre 61
Fingal (Macpherson) (poem) 62
Flack, Leah 34, 113
folklore
and morality 21–24
translation into English 105–106
Yeats on 60, 65–68see also Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory); Wanderings of Oisin, The (Yeats)
Formiginni, Angelo 97–98
Foster, Roy 2
Francis, John Oswald 162–163
Freeman, Edward Augustus 175
Freeman’s Journal (newspaper)
on Gregory’s Cuchulain 108–109
on Synge’s Playboy 91–92
on Yeats’ Oisin 71
Frogs (Aristophanes) 80–81
Fruit, Vegetable, and Fish Market (Dublin) 113
Furey, Michael (character in Joyce’s Dubliners) 91
Gaelic League 15–16, 20n113, 28see also Hyde, Douglas
Gaelic revival (Scotland) 36–41
Garborg, Arne 227
Odyssevskvædet 212
Gentle Shepherd, The (Ramsay) 211n104
George, William 168
Gilbert, Stuart 102n121
Gladstone, William 242
global/world language 221–224, 231see also interlanguage; Interlingua
Godley, Alfred Denis 25
Gogarty, Oliver St. John 117n211, 134, 151n172, 213
Goldhill, Simon 7
Goschen, George 241n30
Gosse, Edmund, letter from Yeats 97
“Greek kinship” 93n59
Green, John Richard 175
Greenwood, Emily 248–249
Gregory, Augusta, Lady 2, 22, 123–124, 143, 144
Cuchulain of Muirthemne 107–110, 113–114
Grieve, Christopher see MacDiarmid, Hugh
Grieve, Margaret (wife of MacDiarmid) 217
Grisewood, Harman 172–173
Groden, Michael 112
Guthlac, Saint 185–186
Hague, René 182n148, 187
Hall, Granville Stanley 127n27
Harding, Jason 248
Hardwick, Lorna 153
Harrison, Jane, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion 104–105
Hart, Matthew 197, 227, 228–229
Haverfield, Francis John, The Romanization of Roman Britain 176n105
Heaney, Seamus, The Burial at Thebes 153–156
‘Hellenic’ styles (nineteenth century) 73–77
Henebry, Richard 19n103, 67n107, 106
Herbert, Henry Howard Molyneux, 4th Earl of Caernarvon 241
Herder, Johann Gottfried 13
Hidden Ireland, The (Corkery) 207
Higgins, Geraldine 107
high modernism 255
Highet, Gilbert 256
Highlands Gaelic 38–41, 211
Hingley, Richard 177–178
Hippolytus, Euripides 132–133
Hitler, Adolf, Mein Kampf 172–173
Hodgkins, R. H., History of the Anglo-Saxons 174–176
Hölderlin, Friedrich 152
Homage to Sextus Propertius (Pound) 143
Home Rule
and Ireland 23–24, 98
and Scotland 210n92, 211
and Wales 43, 45–47
Homer 61–62, 63–65, 100–101see also Iliad; Odyssey
Homeric Ballads (Maginn) 63
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 181–182
Hulme, T. E. 136–137
Humphreys, Emyr, A Toy Epic 181n133
Hyde, Douglas 13, 16–19
and Anglicization 52
on Gregory’s Cuchulain 108n157
and Irish 17–19, 22–28
The Love Songs of Connaught 55
“The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland” 49–51
on translation of Homer 106
Iliad (Homer)
Butler version 102–104
debate on authorship 100–101
Newman version 63–65
In Memoriam James Joyce, From a Vision of World Language (MacDiarmid) 231–232, 252–253
In Parenthesis (Jones) 168–169, 184, 192
In the Shadow of the Glen (Synge) 129
industrialism, and Wales 162–166
interlanguage 200–201, 221–223
Interlingua 222n162
international language 221–224, 231
Ireland
Anglicization 52, 52–55
“Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland, The” (address by Hyde) 49–51
censorship 91–92, 133, 148–151, 154
educational practices 16–19
Home Rule 20, 23–24, 98
national literature 3, 12–13, 32–33, 52, 106, 164
nationalism 98–99
Hyde 50
Joyce 94–97
Yeats 26, 83–84, 90, 153, 154
Irish Free State 148–150, 152
Irish (language) 17–33
Edwin Muir on 215
MacDiarmid on 206
translation into English 105–106see also Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory)
Irish Literary Revival 2–5, 10–12, 13–16, 32–34, 95, 125, 126, 163
Dowden on 246
MacDiarmid on 206, 207–208
Irish Literary Theatre, James Joyce 48
“Is there an Anglo-Welsh Literature?” (Lewis) 164–165
Jacobsen, Jakob, The Dialect and Place Names of Shetland 219–20n149
James, C. L. R. 235
Jebb, Richard
translation of Electra 139
translation of The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles 135, 138–148
John Ferguson (Ervine) 202n44
Johnson, Lionel Pigot 71–72
Jones, David
early life and education 11, 170–172, 182–184, 194
and fascism 172–173
In Parenthesis 168–169, 184, 192
and Romanization of Wales 173–181
and Saunders Lewis 168–170
The Anathemata 46–47, 159–160, 183, 184–190, 192–194, 250–252, 254
“Angle-Land” 185–188
and Welsh (language) 159–160, 170–172
Jones, H. R. 46
Jones, J. E. 168
Jones, James (father of David Jones) 171
Joyce, James 85–122
and the Abbey Theatre 92–93
and classical languages 10–11, 31, 101–102, 119
and David Jones 190, 191–192, 193–194
on Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne 109–110
on the Irish Literary Theatre 48
on John Millington Synge 93
and MacDiarmid 227–228
on meeting Yeats 89
and revivalism 14, 34–36
and Saunders Lewis 190–191
works
Chamber Music 89
Dubliners 91n39
L’Irlanda alla Sbarra 98
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man 35–36
“The Day of the Rabblement” 89
“The Dead” 91
Trieste lectures 93–97
Ulysses 101, 250
“Cyclops” 98, 99, 101–105, 112–115, 117–122
Eliot review of 85–87
“Sirens” 99
“Telemachus” 115–117
Keats, John 6–7
Kenner, Hugh 100, 101, 102, 192, 254
Kenny, P. D. 92
Kiberd, Declan 12
King Oedipus (trans. and production by Yeats) 125–126, 131–153
Kutzinski, Vera 88
Lallans 38–41, 210
and A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (MacDiarmid)
and Yeats 216see also Doric; Scottish languages
Landsmål movement 212
Lane, Hugh 123
Lang, Andrew, version of the Odyssey 101, 102–104, 113
language/language movements
Basic English 200–201, 229
Celtic 10
Doric 40, 198, 211–212see also Lallans
interlanguage 200–201, 221–223
Interlingua 222n162
Scottish 36, 37, 38–41, 210–212
Wardour Street 103, 111, 112–114, 120
world 221–224, 231see also English (language); Irish; synthetic language; Welsh
Laoidh Oisín air Thír na n-Óg (trans. by Comyn) 69–70
“Latin mist” 131–132, 147
Laws in Wales Acts 158
Lay of Oisin on the Land of Youths (trans. by O’Looney) 69
Lays of the Western Gael, And Other Poems (Ferguson) 61
Lenin, V. I. 197
Lewis, Margaret 168–169
Lewis, Saunders 46–47, 160–170
and David Jones 168–170, 188–89n180, 189n185
and fascism 173
“Is There an Anglo-Welsh Literature?” 164–165
and James Joyce 190–191
The Eve of Saint John 163
“The Three” (y Tri) trial 157–159, 167–169
Lewis, Wilfred 158
Licensing Act (1737) 130n46
L’Irlanda alla Sbarra (Joyce) 98
Livingstone, R. W. 128
Lloyd George, David 28
and Cymru Fydd 43
Llyˆn Peninsula incident 157–158, 167–169
Logue, Michael 20
Longenbach, James 148
Love Songs of Connaught, The (Hyde) 55
Lowell, James Russell, on Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) 80
Lucky Poet (MacDiarmid) 232–233
Lyall, Scott 226
MacCormick, John MacDonald 217–218
MacDiarmid, Hugh (Christopher Grieve) 252–255
on anglicization of Scotland 209
biography and education 11, 225–227, 233, 252
and a “Celtic USSR” 223n168
“the Classics” defined 206–207
and communism 224–225
debate with Edwin Muir 216–217
on English 205–206
and global idiom 197–198
on the Irish Literary Revival 206, 207–208
on Joyce 227–228, 231–232, 252–253
move to Whalsay (Shetlands) 219–220, 229–230, 233
and the National Party 217–218
proposal to T. S. Eliot 198
synthetic language 40–41, 212, 19–221, 231, 232–235, 252
“The Watergaw” 212
and Voice of Scotland, The (periodical) 232
works
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 195, 212–214, 232
Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn 227–232
Mature Art 231
“English Ascendancy in British Literature” 198–200
In Memoriam James Joyce 231–232, 252–253
Lucky Poet (memoir) 232–233
Penny Wheep 212
Sangschaw 212
To Circumjack Cencrastus 195–196, 198
MacDowall, John Kevan 218
Macintosh, Fiona 90, 155
Dying Acts 3–5
Mackail, J. W., Latin Literature 166–167
MacKenna, Stephen 11n57
Macpherson, James 62–63
Magee, William Kirkpatrick (John Eglinton) 134
Maginn, William 89–90n33
Homeric Ballads 63, 64–65
Mahaffy, John Pentland 16, 19–20, 24–28, 204, 244–245
Mangan, James Clarence 97n88
“Prince Aldfrid’s Itinerary Through Ireland” 112–113
markets, Fruit, Vegetable, and Fish Market (Dublin) 113
Masqueray, Paul, translation Oedipe-Roi 145
Mathews, P. J. 24, 27
Mattingly, David 177, 178
Mature Art (MacDiarmid) 231
McCormack, W. J. 99
McCourt, John 95
McGuire, James 145
Meade, Joseph 113
Medlar Novelists 226–27n179
Mein Kampf (Hitler) 172–173
Melchiori, Giorgio 98
Merry, William Walter 242n36
Meyer, Kuno 32
mirror image, in Ulysses (Joyce) 116–117
mistranslation, and Joyce 34–35, 87–88, 101, 105, 115–122
Monck, Walter Nugent 135, 143
Moore, George 123, 136
Moore, N. F. 211n104
“moral uplift” 124, 127
morality 127–128
and folklore 21–24
“moral uplift” 124, 127
and Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) 131, 142
and teaching Irish 21see also censorship
Moran, D. P. 95, 114
Morley, Henry 243–244
Morris, William, The Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse 74, 110
Morrison, Conall 154
Mosley, Oswald 223–224
Muir, Edwin 213–217
Mulligan, Malachi “Buck” (character in Joyce’s Ulysses) 35–36, 115–117
Murray, Gilbert 132–134, 142, 143, 255
translation of Oedipus, King of Thebes 146
Myres, J. N. L. 160, 178–180
“myriad-mindedness” 233–234
“Myth of Demeter and Persephone, The” (Pater) (essays) 77
mythical method 85–89
Napier, Arthur Sampson 242n38
Nash, John 248
national literatures 10, 13–14
Ireland 52, 54, 106
and Yeats on 3, 12–13, 32–33, 164
Scotland 215
Wales 42, 162
National Party (Scotland) 197, 209–210, 217–218
nationalism 4–5, 47, 172, 230, 236, 243
Irish 98–99
and Hyde 50
and Joyce 94–97
and Yeats 26, 83–84, 90, 153, 154
Scottish 37–41, 209–210
Welsh 45–47see also cultural nationalism
“Nationality and Literature” (Yeats) 55–56
Nazism 172–173
“Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland, The” (Hyde) 49–51
Nennius, Historia Brittonum 161, 184–185
neoromantic movement 55, 83, 250
neologisms
and David Jones 188
and Joyce 115
and MacDiarmid 233
and Shelley 78
and Yeats 107
Newbolt, Henry, The Teaching of English in England (Newbolt Report) 9
Newman, Francis, Iliad 63–65
Niamh (in Yeats’ Oisin) 75–76, 78–79, 81
Nietzsche, Friedrich 7n38
The Birth of Tragedy 133n64, 136
“No Second Troy” (Yeats) 33n197, 89
non-translation 87–88
Notre Dame, University of, production of Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) 130–131
Nutt, Alfred Trübner 22, 32, 67
obscenity 22, 55n34
O’Connor, Laura 51
O’Donovan, John 112n188
O’Duffy, Eoin 152
Odyssey (Homer) 119
Butcher/Lang version 101, 102–104
Butler version 102–104
debate on authorship 100–101
Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse, The (Morris) 74, 110
Odyssevskvædet (Garborg) 212
Oedipe-Roi (trans. by Masqueray) 145
Oedipus at Colonus (trans. by Yeats) 154
Oedipus, King of Thebes (trans. by Murray) 146
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) 125, 131
University of Notre Dame production 130–131
Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, The (Jebb and Verrall) 135, 138–148
Ogden, C. K. 200–202
O’Grady, Standish James 90
O’Higgins, Kevin 149
O’Looney, Bryan, translation of Lay of Oisin on the Land of Youths 69
On Baile’s Strand (Yeats) 90
On the Living Language of the Greeks (Blackie) 196
“On the Modern Element in Literature” (Arnold) 56–57
“On Not Knowing Greek” (Woolf) 237–239
O’Shea, Edward 135n72
Ossian 56n37, 62–63
Paget, Richard, Babel, or The Past, Present, and Future of Human Speech 203–204
Palmer, D. J. 242
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia, Delphos: The Future of International Language 221–223
parataxis 74–75, 81
Parnell, Charles Stewart 96
Pater, Clara 237
Pater, Walter, “The Myth of Demeter and Persephone” (essays) 77
Patmore, Coventry 73
Paulin, Tom 154, 155
Peano, Giuseppe 222n162
Pearse, Pádraic 13
Penny Wheep (MacDiarmid) 212
Plaid Cymru (Welsh political party) 46, 168, 170, 180
Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge) 91–93
Plumptre, Edward Hayes 141–142
Plutarch, Moralia 21
Polyphemus (in Homer’s Odyssey) 119
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce) 34–35
Stephen Dedalus 31
Pound, Ezra 136, 137–138
Homage to Sextus Propertius 143
on Joyce’s ‘Sirens’ 99
on MacDiarmid moving to Whalsay 219
on “No Second Troy” (Yeats) 89, 137
on Yeats’ version of Oedipus 126
Power, Charles Stewart 137n87
“Prince Aldfrid’s Itinerary Through Ireland” (Mangan) 112–113
privatives, use of 77–79
Prolegomena ad Homerum (Wolf) 62
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Harrison) 104–105
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) 68–69, 77–82
Protestantism
and Scotland 39see also Catholic Church
Pseudo-Dionysius, De Coelesti Hierarchia 96
Punishment of Incest Act (1908) 142n120
Purser, Louis 16
Puttenham, George, The Arte of English Poesy 79
Quarterly Review, and Morris’ Odyssey 110
Quiller-Couch, Arthur 242n38
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1861–1922) 242n38
Ramsay, Allan, The Gentle Shepherd 211n104
Ramsay, Anna A. W., Challenge to the Highlander 40
repetition of questions 148
Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (1931) 198–200
Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales (1848) 20–21n114
Rex 2 144–145
Richards, I. A. 200–202
Richardson, Edmund 8–9n46
Riders to the Sea (Synge) 93
Robinson, Lennox 2n9
Roman Britain 159, 160–162, 173–181
Romanitas 47, 251, 252
Romanticism 59, 68, 79, 136–137
Russell, George William (Æ) 13–14, 216n135
on Anna Livia Plurabelle (Joyce) 229
on Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory) 111
Ryan, W. P. 109
Rynd, Rev. Rex 137n87, 143
Sangschaw (MacDiarmid) 212
Schwartzman, Myron 118
Scotland
Anglicization 209
Gaelic revival 36–41
Home Rule 210n92, 211
national literatures 215
National Party 197, 209–210, 217–218
Protestantism 39see also Scottish languages
Scottish Gaelic see Scottish languages
Scottish languages 36, 37–41, 210–212see also Doric; Lallans
Senn, Fritz 121
service and aversion, rites of 104–105
Shakespear, Olivia 152
Shaw, George Bernard
letter from St. John Ervine 202n44
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 66–67
Prometheus Unbound 68–69, 77–82
Sidney, Sir Philip, Defence of Poesy 79
“Sirens” see Ulysses (Joyce)
Smith, G. Gregory 212
social meaning 12, 30–31, 240–243
Sohrab and Rustum (Arnold) 73–75
Sophocles 139–142
Antigone 153–156
and Irish nationalism 153
Oedipus Rex 125
Oedipus Tyrannus 151
Storr on 143
sprung rhythm 181
Stanford, W. B. 27
Ireland and the Classical Tradition 3
Stenton, F. M. 179–180
Storr, Francis 143, 146
Stray, Christopher 8–9, 133, 240–241
Sword of Light, The (An Claidheamh Soluis) 15–16
Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius 179
Synge, John Millington 1–2, 67, 125
on Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory) 111–112
“Greek kinship” 93n59
In the Shadow of the Glen 129
Riders to the Sea 93
The Playboy of the Western World 91–93
and Yeats 137
synthetic language, MacDiarmid 40–41, 212, 19–221, 231, 232–235, 252
Taylor, James Monroe 127
Temora (Macpherson) (poem) 62
Thackeray, W. M. 140
Theatre Regulation Act (1843) 130n46
“The Three” (y Tri) trial 157–159, 167–169
To Circumjack Cencrastus (MacDiarmid) 195–196, 198
Todhunter, John 71
translation
authentic 239–240see also mistranslation
Trembling of the Veil, The (Yeats) 82
Trench, Dermot Chenevix 18n99
Trevlyn, Valda 218see also Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn (MacDiarmid)
Trinity College, Dublin
1899 education commission 16–17
classical studies 29
and English literary studies 244
on the study of Irish 24–27
and W. B. Yeats 7n41
Tuam Herald (newspaper), on Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory) 111
Tucker, Herbert 69
Turck, Fenton Benedict 124, 126–127
Turner, Frank 127–128
two plane style 86
Tylor, E. B. 190n188
Tyrrell, Robert Yelverton 16
Tytler, Alexander Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee 211n104
Ulysses (Joyce) 34, 48, 101, 250
“Cyclops” 98, 99, 101–105, 112–115, 117–122
Eliot review of 85–87
influence on MacDiarmid 212
“Sirens” 99
“Telemachus” 115–117
“Ulysses, Order, and Myth” (Eliot) 85
“Uplift our State” 151
Valentine, Lewis 46
“The Three” (y Tri) trial 157–159, 167–169
Venuti, Lawrence 125–126, 256
Verrall, A. W., translation of The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles 135, 138–148
Villiers, Edward Hyde, 5th Earl of Clarendon 130
Villis, Tom 172
Voice of Scotland, The (periodical) 232
Wade-Evans, A. W. 46, 160–162
Wales 41–47, 162–166
and Anglicization 42–43, 166, 174
Home Rule 43, 45–47
Laws in Wales Acts 158
Plaid Cymru (Welsh political party) 46, 168, 170, 180
and the Roman Empire 159, 160–162, 173–181
Young Wales (Cymru Fydd) movement 43–44see also Welsh (language)
Wanderings of Oisin, The (Yeats) 55, 69–84
Wardour Street 103, 111, 112–114, 120
“Watergaw, The” (MacDiarmid) 212
Watson, Sir William 76, 205
Weaver, Harriet Shaw 85–86, 99
Welsh Courts Act (1942) 168
Welsh (language) 165–167
and David Jones 159–160, 170–172see also Anathemata, The
and Gerard Manley Hopkins 181–182
and “The Three” (y Tri) trial 157–159, 167–169
“West-Britonism” 53
Whalsay (Shetlands), and MacDiarmid 219–220, 229–230, 233
Wilde, Oscar
on John Pentland Mahaffy 16n87
review of Odyssey (Morris) 110
review of Oisin (Yeats) 71, 75
Williams, D. J. 157–159, 167–169
“wine-dark sea” epithet 115–116
Wolf, Friedrich August 100
Prolegomena ad Homerum 61–62
Wolf, Nicholas 51
Woolf, Virginia, “On Not Knowing Greek” 237–239
world/global language 221–224, 231see also interlanguage; Interlingua
worm-hole image 111–112
Worman, Nancy 239
Wreck of the Deutschland, The (Hopkins) 181–182
Yao, Steven 87, 142
Yeats, John Butler 6, 7–8
and the Irish language 26, 32–33
Yeats, W. B.
and the Abbey Theatre 92–93, 137
and Anglicization 249–250
and artistic freedom 128–131, 150
early life and classical education 5–6, 7–8, 10, 132
and folklore 60, 65–68
on Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne 107–109
on Hyde 53–55
and John Millington Synge 1–2, 93, 129, 137
and Joyce 89, 97
and the Lallans movement 216
literary development 57–60
and a national literature 12–13, 105
and nationalism 26, 83–84, 89–90, 153
New York trip on the Lusitania 123–124
on the Odyssey (Morris) 110
on Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) 68–69
and Trinity College 7n41
use of classics in work 33–34
works
“A Woman Homer Sung” 33n195, 89
King Oedipus 125–126, 131–153
“Nationality and Literature” 55–56
“No Second Troy” 33n197, 89
Oedipus at Colonus 154
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth 10
The Trembling of the Veil 82
The Wanderings of Oisin 55, 69–84
Yellow Book of Lecan, The 22n123
Young, Douglas 254–255
Young Wales (Cymru Fydd) movement 43–44

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