Publications (Selection) - Prof. Dr. Richard Taylor

Books

• Frank Pearce Sturm: His Life, Letters and Collected Work. Urbana, Chicago and London; University of lllinois Press, 1969. 382 pgs.

• The Drama of W.B. Yeats: Irish Myth and the Japanese No. London and New Haven; Yale University Press, 1976. Reprinted 1977. 247 pgs.

• Background Lectures in English Literature, ed. R. Taylor. Benin; Ethiope Press, 1978. 218 pgs.

• Understanding the Elements of Literature: Forms. Techniques and Cultural Conventions. London; Macmillan, 1982. Reprinted 1989. 234 pgs. Chinese tr. by Li Fang. Chenydu; Sechuan University Press, 1987.

• A Reader's Guide to the Plays of W.B. Yeats. London and Dublin; Macmillan: New York; St. Martin's, 1984. Reprinted 1991. 197 pgs.

• Variorum Edition of Three Cantos, A Prototype. Bayreuth; Boomerang Press, 1991. 125 pgs.

• Ezra Pound and Europe, ed. R Taylor and Claus Melchior. Amsterdam; Radopi, 1993. 242 pgs.

Plays

• 'Green Park: A Noh Play' with Japanese tr. by S. Matsudeira in Michi, A Journal for Cultural Exchange, 3, 1 (Spring 1980), pp. 18. Reprinted in'Japanese Noh Drama in European and African Dress,' Komparatistische Hefte, 4 (1981), pp. 81-101.
   
  
• 'Ezeulu: A Modern Noh Play,' in 'Japanese Noh Drama in European and African Dress,' Komparatistische Hefte, 4 (1981), pp. 81 - 101. Reprinted in Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts, 1 (Harmattan 1982), pp. 46-56.

Recent Articles

• 'Pan-African Tales Twice-Told,' Cambridge Review, 110, 2307 (December 1989),165-167.
  
  
• 'Reconstructing Ezra Pound's Cantos, Variorum Edition-Manuscript Archive-Reading Text,' Anglistentag 1989 Würzburg, ed. Rüdiger Ahrens. Tübingen; Niemeyer, 1990. Pp. 350-369 and Ezra Pound and America, ed. Jacqueline Kaye. London, Macmillan, 1992, pp. 132-148. Reprinted as revised in Avantgarde und Postmoderne - Prozesse struktureller und funktionaler Veränderungen, ed. Erika Fischer-Lichte und Klaus Schwind. Tübingen; Stauffenburg, 1991. Pp. 139-160.
  
  
• 'Metrical Variation in Yeats's Verse,' Yeats Annual, 8. London; Macmillan, 1991, pp. 21-38.
  'I1 noh giappanese e la sua diffusione nel mondo occidentale,' Il 1ettore di provincia, 22, 82 (dicembre 1991), 3-19.
  
  
• 'Postcolonial Criticism', The Modern Language Review, 7, 2 (April, 1992), 961-965.
  
  
• 'Canto XLIX, Futurism, and the Fourth Dimension,' Neohelicon, XX, 2 (1993), pp. [333] - 352.
  
  
• 'Meter and Measure in Avant-Garde Poetry,' Neohelicon, XX/1 (1994), pp. 143-164.
  
  
• 'Notes to Readers' on 'Introduction by William Butler Yeats to Certain Noble Plays of Japan by Pound and Fenollosa, A Guide to Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa's Classic Noh Theatre of Japan, ed. Akiko Miyake, Sanchide Kodoma, and Nicholas Teele. Orono, ME; National Poetry Foundation and Otsu, Japan; Ezra Ponnd Society of Japan, 1994. Pp. 297-301.
  
  
• 'Towards A Textual Biography of The Cantos,' Modernist Writers and the Market Place, ed. Warren Chernaik. London; Macmillan, 1996. Pp. 223-257.
  
  
• 'The History and State of the Texts,' A Poem Including History. The Text of The Cantos, ed. Lawrence Rainey. Ann Arbor, MI; University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. 235-265.
  
  
• 'Niyi Osundare in Interview with Richard Taylor,' Anglistik, 8. 1 (März 1997), 31-36.
  
  
• 'Three Nigerian Poets and a Lyric Novelist,' Anglistentag 1996 Dresden, ed. Uwe Böker et al. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1997. Pp. 187-195 & 'Introduction,' pp. 139-140.
  
  
• 'Editing the Variorum Cantos: Process and Policy,' Paideuma. In press. Pp.