Ronald Schuchard, The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), xxvi + 446 pp.

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Even for Yeatsians, mention of W. B. Yeats and Florence Farr’s long experimentation with the chanting of verse to the accompaniment of Arnold Dolmetsch’s psaltery can evoke exasperation, if not mockery. Here is George Moore, relaying some gossip about rehearsals for an 1899 production of The Countess Cathleen: [Edward Martyn] had come to tell me that Yeats had that morning turned up to rehearsal, and was now explaining his method of speaking verse to the actors, while the lady in the green cl...

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