W. B. Yeats-Ezra Pound Celebration Conference
Program
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
Session One
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Introduction of Distinguished Guests
Session Two
Chair: Akiko Miyake
At the Hawk鈥檚 Well, presented by Umewaka Troupe
Pavilion Theatre
Session Three
Chair: Kathleen Lignell
Poetry Reading Free-for-All
MONDAY, AUGUST 13
Session Four
Panel One
Chair: Laura Cowan
George Bornstein, 鈥淩emembering Himself: Yeats鈥檚 Construction of His Early Canon鈥
Hugh Witemeyer, 鈥淪tone Cottages Do Not a Prison Make: Yeats-Pound, 1913-1916鈥
Richard J. Finneran, 鈥淭ext and Meaning in Yeats鈥檚 Later Poetry鈥
Panel Two
Chair: Walter Sutton
Anita Feldman, 鈥淵eats鈥檚 Purgatory: The Old Man and His Author鈥
Mohammad Shaheen, 鈥淵eats and Pound in the Lands of Allah鈥
Shalini Sikka, 鈥淵eats鈥檚 鈥楿nity of Being鈥 in the Perspective of Upanisadic States of Turiya and Sushupti鈥
Panel Three
Chair: Russell Elliott Murphy
Angela Elliott, 鈥淧lato鈥檚 Ghost and the Visions of Yeats and Pound鈥
Donald Pearce, 鈥淩emembering George: Hours with the Domestic Sibyl鈥
John Walsh, 鈥淪wirls and Whirls: Pound鈥檚 Vortex and Yeats鈥檚 Gyres鈥
Session Five
Chair: Hugh Kenner
Michael Yeats, 鈥淵eats, the Family Man,鈥&苍产蝉辫;keynote address
Session Six
Chair: Desmond Egan
Hugh Kenner, 鈥淎t the Well of the Universe,鈥&苍产蝉辫;keynote address
Session Seven
Panel One
Chair: Stephen J. Adams
Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, 鈥淧ound and Swedenborg鈥
Andrzej Sosnowski, 鈥淪wedenborg, Pound and Imagism鈥
Leon Surette, 鈥淵eats鈥檚 Reading of Nietzsche鈥
Panel Two
Chair: Peter Dale Scott
Richard Londraville, 鈥淭he Legacy of Stone Cottage鈥
Dean Rader, 鈥淭he Delirium of the Brave: Yeats, Pound, and the Language of Revolution鈥
James Longenbach, 鈥淪tone Cottage Revisited鈥
Session Eight
Chair: C.F. Terrell
M.L. Rosenthal, 鈥淭he Quality of Yeats,鈥&苍产蝉辫;keynote address
Session Nine
Panel One
Chair: Stephen J. Adams
Scott Hamilton, 鈥淧ound鈥檚 Modernism Reconsidered: Pound, Yeats, and French Symbolism鈥
Peter Dale Scott, 鈥淵eats and Pound: Cultural and Poetic Politics鈥
Myles Slatin, 鈥溾楲ord by This Time He Stinketh鈥: Lazarus and the Problem of Influences in Pound and Yeats鈥
Panel Two
Chair: Hugh Witemeyer
Walter Baumann, 鈥淵eats and Ireland in The Cantos鈥
Rajiv C. Krishnan, 鈥溾楿ncle William Dawdling Around Notre Dame鈥: Pound鈥檚 Vorticist Critique of Yeats鈥
Lea Baechler, 鈥淩emember that I Have Remembered: Poetic Tributes to Pound in the Later Yeats鈥
Panel Three
Chair: George Bornstein
Dennis Ryan, 鈥淭he Pound-Yeats Influence on Hemingway鈥
Rose Orlich, 鈥淵eats鈥檚 Use of Color: The Mist Clings to the Lacquer鈥
Vincent Sherry, 鈥淵eats鈥檚 Nineties and Pound鈥檚 Twenties鈥
Session Ten
Chair: Peter Dale Scott
Poetry Reading Free-for-All
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14
Session Eleven
Panel One
Chair: Walter Baumann
Bruce Campbell, 鈥溾楾he Differend鈥 in The Cantos鈥
Gerry Dukes, 鈥淵eats and All Our Ambiguities鈥
Russell Elliott Murphy, 鈥淵eats and the Quest for Cosmopolis鈥
Panel Two
Chair: Angela Elliott
Tetsuo Arima, 鈥淭he Influence of Haiku on Pound鈥檚 Poetics鈥
Linda Ray Pratt, 鈥淭he Clash of Reality: Yeats鈥檚 Metaphoric Thinking鈥
Panel Three
Chair: Myles Slatin
Michael Coyle, 鈥淭he Rhetoric of Profundity: Pound on Aesthetics and Cultural Change鈥
Tim Redman, 鈥淧ound and Fascism: The New Age 础苍迟别肠别诲别苍迟蝉鈥
Stephen Sicari, 鈥淧oetry and Politics in Pound and Yeats鈥
Session Twelve
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Mary de Rachewiltz, 鈥淎 Pilgrim to Erin Shrines,鈥&苍产蝉辫;keynote address
Session Thirteen
Chair: Ira B. Nadel
Ronald Bush, 鈥溾楺uiet Not Scornful?鈥: The Composition of the Pisan Cantos,鈥&苍产蝉辫;keynote address
Session Fourteen
Discussion Group One
Chair: Louis Martz
Panel: Walter Baumann, Gerry Dukes, Russell Elliott Murphy, Michael Yeats
Discussion Group Two
Chair: Richard J. Finneran
Panel: Peter Dale Scott, Hugh Kenner, Mary de Rachewiltz, Walter Sutton, C.F. Terrell
Session Fifteen
Irish Ballad Concert
Desmond Egan, Sebastian Knowles, Nancy Ogle, Joseph Arsenault
Session Sixteen
Chair: M.L. Rosenthal
Poetry Reading Free-for-All
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15
Session Eighteen
Panel One
Chair: Ronald Bush
Maria Luisa Ardizzone, 鈥淟ING2: The Genealogy of Pound鈥檚 Revolution in the Language of 鈥楻ock-Drill鈥欌
Karen Foster, 鈥淒ecoding the Female in The Only Jealousy of Emer鈥
Kathleen Trevena, 鈥淚mmortal Passions in Mortal Clay: Yeats鈥檚 Olivia and Maud鈥
Panel Two
Chair: Peter Dale Scott
David Holdeman, 鈥淩evision and Closure in Yeats鈥檚 The Rose鈥
Youngmin Kim, 鈥淒iscovery of Open Form in Yeats and Pound鈥
David Roessel, 鈥淭houghts of a Dry Brain in a Dry Season鈥
Panel Three
Chair: Michael Coyle
Desmond Egan, 鈥淐uchulainn and Billy Brennan: Influences on Modern Irish Poetry鈥
Rachel V. Billigheimer, 鈥淪ymbolic Birds in Yeats鈥檚 Vision of History鈥
Sebastian Knowles: Eating Little Red Riding Hood for Breakfast: Ezra Pound to Alice Steiner Amdur鈥
Session Nineteen
Chair: Mary de Rachewiltz
Louis Martz, 鈥淔rom Reverie to Prophecy: Yeats and Pound,鈥&苍产蝉辫;keynote address
Session Twenty
Chair: Louis Martz
Ira B. Nadel, 鈥淟etters from 鈥楾he Foreign Correspondent鈥欌
Walter Sutton, 鈥淓P as Foreign Agent and Critic of The Dial鈥
Session Twenty-One
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Ave and Salute