英語「John Sherman & Dhoya/ジョン・シャーマンとドーヤ」H.B.Yeats著 1990年 The Lillyput Press発行 目次等8頁+104頁 * 2017年に英宝社より日訳書「小説ジョン・シャーマンとドーヤ」が出版されています。
【裏表紙より】John Sherman and Dhoya, novella and story, are among the earliest of W.B. Yeats’s published compositions, begun at his father’s prompting when the young poet was living in London in 1888. John Sherman is a poignant and delightful narrative that dramatizes the predicament of a young man in love, troubled by his senses. It is complexly autobiographical, projecting the poet’s Self and Anti-self through the contrasted personalites of Sherman and Howard, exalting a yearned-for Sligo in the west of Ireland at the expense of an alien English metropolis. Dhoya is a wonder tale of the heroic age, also set in Sligo, blending Irish mythology with local legend, and anticipating the Celtic Twighlight stories of 1893 and the late Byzantium poems. Published first in 1891 and again in 1908, John Shermand & Dhoya last appeared in America in 1969. This text followed that of the first edition and is accompanied by an Afterword by Eve Patten. 【著者について】In his 1940 memorial lecture in Dublin, T. S. Eliot pronounced Yeats "one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them." Modern readers have increasingly agreed, and some now view Yeats even more than Eliot as the greatest modern poet in our language. Son of the painter John Butler Yeats, the poet divided his early years among Dublin, London, and the port of Sligo in western Ireland. Sligo furnished many of the familiar places in his poetry, among them the mountain Ben Bulben and the lake isle of Innisfree. Important influences on his early adulthood included his father, the writer and artist William Morris, the nationalist leader John O'Leary, and the occultist Madame Blavatsky. In 1889 he met the beautiful actress and Irish nationalist Maud Gonne; his long and frustrated love for her (she refused to marry him) would inspire some of his best work. Often and mistakenly viewed as merely a dreamy Celtic twilight, Yeats's work in the 1890s involved a complex attempt to unite his poetic, nationalist, and occult interests in line with his desire to "hammer [his] thoughts into unity." By the turn of the century, Yeats was immersed in the work with the Irish dramatic movement that would culminate in the founding of the Abbey Theatre in 1904 as a national theater for Ireland. Partly as a result of his theatrical experience, his poetry after 1900 began a complex "movement downwards upon life" fully evident in the Responsibilities volume of 1914. After that he published the extraordinary series of great volumes, all written after age 50, that continued until the end of his career. Widely read in various literary and philosophic traditions, Yeats owed his greatest debt to romantic poetry and once described himself, along with his coworkers John Synge and Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory, as a "last romantic." Yet he remained resolutely Irish as well and presented in his verse a persona bearing a subtle, idealized relationship to his everyday self. Political events such as the Easter Rising and the Irish civil war found their way into his poetry, as did personal ones such as marriage to the Englishwoman Georgiana "Georgie" Hyde-Lees in 1917, the birth of his children, and his sometime home in the Norman tower at Ballylee. So, too, did his increasing status as a public man, which included both the Nobel Prize in 1923 and a term as senator of the Irish Free State (1922--28). Yeats's disparate activities led to a lifelong quest for what he called "unity of being," which he pursued by "antinomies," or opposites. These included action and contemplation, life and art, fair and foul, and other famous pairs from his poetry. The most original poet of his age, he was also in ways the most traditional, and certainly the most substant. His varied literary output included not only poems and plays but an array of prose forms such as essays, philosophy, fiction, reviews, speeches, and editions of folk and literary material. He also frequently revised his own poems, which exist in various published texts helpfully charted in the Variorum edition (1957). 【日訳書内容紹介】故郷の田舎町に暮らす幼友だちの女性と、大都会ロンドン育ちの華やかな女性、二人の女性に揺れる主人公シャーマン。アイルランド伝説上の巨人ドーヤの悲恋物語(初邦訳)。大詩人イェイツ弱冠23歳の自伝的小説。 【ウィキペディアより】ウィリアム・バトラー・イェイツ（William Butler Yeats, 1865年6月13日 - 1939年1月28日）は、アイルランドの詩人、劇作家。イギリスの神秘主義秘密結社黄金の夜明け団（The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn）のメンバーでもある。ダブリン郊外、サンディマウント出身。作風は幅広く、ロマン主義、神秘主義、モダニズムを吸収し、アイルランドの文芸復興を促した。日本の能の影響を受けた戯曲『鷹の井戸』も執筆している。1976年から発行されていたアイルランドの20ポンド紙幣に肖像が使用されていた。
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