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’s 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, “Remembering Himself: Yeats’s Construction of His Early Canon”
Hugh Witemeyer, “Stone Cottages Do Not a Prison Make: Yeats-Pound, 1913-1916”
Richard J. Finneran, “Text and Meaning in Yeats’s Later Poetry”
Panel Two
Chair: Walter Sutton
Anita Feldman, “Yeats’s Purgatory: The Old Man and His Author”
Mohammad Shaheen, “Yeats and Pound in the Lands of Allah”
Shalini Sikka, “Yeats’s ‘Unity of Being’ in the Perspective of Upanisadic States of Turiya and Sushupti”
Panel Three
Chair: Russell Elliott Murphy
Angela Elliott, “Plato’s Ghost and the Visions of Yeats and Pound”
Donald Pearce, “Remembering George: Hours with the Domestic Sibyl”
John Walsh, “Swirls and Whirls: Pound’s Vortex and Yeats’s Gyres”
Session Five
Chair: Hugh Kenner
Michael Yeats, “Yeats, the Family Man,” keynote address
Session Six
Chair: Desmond Egan
Hugh Kenner, “At the Well of the Universe,” keynote address
Session Seven
Panel One
Chair: Stephen J. Adams
Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, “Pound and Swedenborg”
Andrzej Sosnowski, “Swedenborg, Pound and Imagism”
Leon Surette, “Yeats’s Reading of Nietzsche”
Panel Two
Chair: Peter Dale Scott
Richard Londraville, “The Legacy of Stone Cottage”
Dean Rader, “The Delirium of the Brave: Yeats, Pound, and the Language of Revolution”
James Longenbach, “Stone Cottage Revisited”
Session Eight
Chair: C.F. Terrell
M.L. Rosenthal, “The Quality of Yeats,” keynote address
Session Nine
Panel One
Chair: Stephen J. Adams
Scott Hamilton, “Pound’s Modernism Reconsidered: Pound, Yeats, and French Symbolism”
Peter Dale Scott, “Yeats and Pound: Cultural and Poetic Politics”
Myles Slatin, “‘Lord by This Time He Stinketh’: Lazarus and the Problem of Influences in Pound and Yeats”
Panel Two
Chair: Hugh Witemeyer
Walter Baumann, “Yeats and Ireland in The Cantos”
Rajiv C. Krishnan, “‘Uncle William Dawdling Around Notre Dame’: Pound’s Vorticist Critique of Yeats”
Lea Baechler, “Remember that I Have Remembered: Poetic Tributes to Pound in the Later Yeats”
Panel Three
Chair: George Bornstein
Dennis Ryan, “The Pound-Yeats Influence on Hemingway”
Rose Orlich, “Yeats’s Use of Color: The Mist Clings to the Lacquer”
Vincent Sherry, “Yeats’s Nineties and Pound’s Twenties”
Session Ten
Chair: Peter Dale Scott
Poetry Reading Free-for-All
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14
Session Eleven
Panel One
Chair: Walter Baumann
Bruce Campbell, “‘The Differend’ in The Cantos”
Gerry Dukes, “Yeats and All Our Ambiguities”
Russell Elliott Murphy, “Yeats and the Quest for Cosmopolis”
Panel Two
Chair: Angela Elliott
Tetsuo Arima, “The Influence of Haiku on Pound’s Poetics”
Linda Ray Pratt, “The Clash of Reality: Yeats’s Metaphoric Thinking”
Panel Three
Chair: Myles Slatin
Michael Coyle, “The Rhetoric of Profundity: Pound on Aesthetics and Cultural Change”
Tim Redman, “Pound and Fascism: The New Age Antecedents”
Stephen Sicari, “Poetry and Politics in Pound and Yeats”
Session Twelve
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Mary de Rachewiltz, “A Pilgrim to Erin Shrines,” keynote address
Session Thirteen
Chair: Ira B. Nadel
Ronald Bush, “‘Quiet Not Scornful?’: The Composition of the Pisan Cantos,” 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, “LING2: The Genealogy of Pound’s Revolution in the Language of ‘Rock-Drill’”
Karen Foster, “Decoding the Female in The Only Jealousy of Emer”
Kathleen Trevena, “Immortal Passions in Mortal Clay: Yeats’s Olivia and Maud”
Panel Two
Chair: Peter Dale Scott
David Holdeman, “Revision and Closure in Yeats’s The Rose”
Youngmin Kim, “Discovery of Open Form in Yeats and Pound”
David Roessel, “Thoughts of a Dry Brain in a Dry Season”
Panel Three
Chair: Michael Coyle
Desmond Egan, “Cuchulainn and Billy Brennan: Influences on Modern Irish Poetry”
Rachel V. Billigheimer, “Symbolic Birds in Yeats’s Vision of History”
Sebastian Knowles: Eating Little Red Riding Hood for Breakfast: Ezra Pound to Alice Steiner Amdur”
Session Nineteen
Chair: Mary de Rachewiltz
Louis Martz, “From Reverie to Prophecy: Yeats and Pound,” keynote address
Session Twenty
Chair: Louis Martz
Ira B. Nadel, “Letters from ‘The Foreign Correspondent’”
Walter Sutton, “EP as Foreign Agent and Critic of The Dial”
Session Twenty-One
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Ave and Salute