A Yeats Dictionary: Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Irish Studies, Syracuse University Press

by Lester I. Conner

This is the first dictionary to identify, chart, and explain in context the many proper names and place names that so famously enrich the poetry of William Butler Yeats and, just as famously, anchor that poetry to Ireland. In compiling this work, Lester I. Conner has relied upon Yeats's own prose, the principal Yeats criticism, and the writings of Yeats's friends and critics. The result is a work that warmly ushers us into the poems, where we find we are not strangers after all.

Genres: Ireland

226 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

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I met Lester Connor in 2000. He must have been 80 and never liked to be without an Irish whiskey in his hand which he always drank neat. Lester is a friend of my cousin Nancy's husband Sheamus who was born and raised in Northern Ireland but now resides in Harbour Isles Florida, just outside of Miami Beach. Lester knew a whole host of Irish literati and was in DC in conjunction with a grans Smithsonian celebration of Ireland. I would come home from work and sheamus and Lester would be drinking on the porch telling me how they had lunch with Sheamus Heaney, the nobel prize laureate. On another occasion, Sheamus was out all night and arrived with a shiner: "I walked into a door", he said. So here is to Lester, Sheamus and william Butler Yeats.