The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays (Collected Works of W. B. Yeats) by William Butler Yeats

Author:William Butler Yeats
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2015-04-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chorus:

Then raise the scarlet standard high!

Within its shade we’ll live or die.

Tho’ cowards flinch and traitors sneer,

We’ll keep the red flag flying here.

Harry Edward Piggott , ed., Songs that Made History (London: Dent, 1937) pp. 68-69.

20. James Connolly (1868-1916), Irish socialist and trade union organiser, a leader of the workers in the lockout in Dublin in 1913, organiser of the Irish Citizen Army, and commander in the General Post Office, Dublin, during the Easter Rising, for which he was executed.

21. Karl Marx , Das Kapital (3 vols., 1867-95). John Mitchel , Jail Journal (1854); he had been convicted in 1848 of advocating armed resistance to English rule in Ireland; see p. 409, note 12 below, and UP1 361, 386.

Speeches from the Dock; or, Protests of Irish Patriotism: Containing Speeches Delivered in the Dock by Theobald Wolfe Tone…. (Dublin: Gill, 1800; 2nd ed. 1868; repr. 1881, 1882, 1886, 1890, 1893, 1894).

Vladimir Sergeevich Solovof (or Soloviev or Solovyou), The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy (1898, in Russian), tr. Nathalie A. Duddington , Constable’s Russian Library (London: Constable, 1918), (O’Shea no. 1958). In this book, the liberal Russian philosopher and poet (1853-1900), who defined the good as truth and righteousness, presents his system of ethics. See notes 36-37 below.

John Augustine Ryan , Distributive Justice: The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth (New York: Macmillan, 1916). Reverend (later Monsignor) Ryan, D.D. (1869-1945), became a leading American Catholic liberal and labor expert; he taught at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. In this book, he argues for private ownership of land, as a natural right, and cites St Thomas Aquinas and Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum: On the Condition of Labor’ (1891).

Charles Dominic Plater, SJ., rector (1916-20) of Campion Hall, Oxford (renamed from Plater’s Hall in 1918), worked to arouse Catholics to a sense of social needs. Father Plater published pamphlets on topics such as ‘Retreats for Working-men’ and ‘Letters to Catholic Soldiers’, through the Catholic Truth Society and the Catholic Social Guild; during four weeks in 1917 he was active in the distribution of 40,000 pamphlets for the Catholic Social Guild on the peace note from Pope Benedict XV.

22. The Daily Herald, a popular London daily, was strongly pro-Labour; the Morning Post was a conservative London daily.

23. Sinn Féin (‘Ourselves’ or ‘Our Own Thing’): Irish independence movement, founded 1905-8 and reorganised in 1917 when Eamon de Valera became its president.

24. Yeats owned nearly all of a forty-volume English translation (1895-98; repr. 1901; O’Shea nos. 76-111) of Honoré de Balzac’s collection of novels and stories, Comédie humaine (1842 ff).

25. John Trivett Nettleship (1841-1903), English artist, a friend of J. B. Yeats.

26. For Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, see note 30 below. Honoré de Balzac , About Catherine de’ Medici (1841); see p. 368, note 25 below. Charles Darwin , On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859).

27. The quotation is untraced. Yeats’s opinion here agrees with Friedrich Nietzsche; see The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values, [vol.

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