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On 2 November 1896, Yeats was trying to finish “The Adoration of the Magi”, the last in a triptych of stories which, complete as a unit, were nevertheless also studies for his novel, The Speckled Bird (later abandoned). “Rosa Alchemica” had been published in The Savoy in April 1896, and “The Tables of the Law” was in the current (November) issue. The journal was to close in December, and its demise was well in progress in November. Yeats therefore probably had no periodical publication in mind for “The Adoration of the Magi”, but it was planned by him to be the final story, not only of the triptych, but also of his historically structured sequence The Secret Rose,1 and there was neither time for, nor purpose (beyond remuneration) in, prior disclosure in periodical form.
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See VP 837; E&I 513–14; and Warwick Gould, “Frazer, Yeats and the Reconsecration of Folklore”, in Robert Fraser (ed.), Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination (London: Macmillan, 1990) pp. 121–53.
Richard J. Finneran, Editing Yeats’s Poems: A Reconsideration (London: Macmillan, 1989) pp. 139–40.
Richard J. Finneran, Editing Yeats’s Poems (London: Macmillan, 1983) pp. 112–13.
Prophetic words. See Finneran, Editing Yeats’s Poems: A Reconsideration, pp. 139–40; O Hehir, in YAACTS 1 (1983) 101–3.
See Beckson, in Yeats Studies: An International Journal, 1(Bealtaine, 1971) 40 n. 56. I am grateful for the assistance of Mr Desmond Flower in the matter of G. C. R. Greene’s notes. Their present whereabouts is also unknown.
See Frank O’Connor, My Father’s Son (London: Macmillan, 1968) p. 104, for anecdotes about both Gogarty and O’Connor, and their “collaborations” with Yeats.
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Gould, W. (1991). “Seven Paters” One More Time. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 8. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08861-4_12
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