Series Editors's Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Contextual Overview | p. 7 |
Chronology | p. 16 |
Contemporary Documents | p. 22 |
The Celtic Element in Literature | p. 22 |
Magic | p. 23 |
Anima Hominis, section V | p. 24 |
Anima Hominis, section VI | p. 26 |
A Vision | p. 27 |
Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, section IX | p. 28 |
Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, section X | p. 29 |
A General Introduction for My Work | p. 30 |
Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth | p. 32 |
from Autobiographies: Four Years, 1887-1891 | p. 33 |
From Letter from Maud Gonne to W. B. Yeats | p. 34 |
Critical History | p. 39 |
Yeats and the Occult | p. 40 |
Development, Ireland, Poetic and Cultural Legacy | p. 41 |
Fascism, Right-Wing Politics, Post-Colonialism, Feminism | p. 43 |
Close Reading, Formalism, Deconstruction, Intertextuality | p. 45 |
Early Critical Reception | p. 47 |
From Lionel Johnson's review of The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics | p. 47 |
From Arthur Symons's review of The Wind among the Reeds | p. 47 |
From Austin Clarke's review of The Tower | p. 48 |
From Louise Bogan's article on Yeats in the Atlantic Monthly | p. 48 |
From F. R. Leavis's review of Last Poems and Plays | p. 49 |
Modern Criticism | p. 50 |
Louis MacNeice on character and style in Yeats | p. 50 |
Richard Ellmann on Yeats's 'affirmative capability' | p. 51 |
John Bayley on Yeats and the Mask | p. 54 |
Jon Stallworthy on 'The Second Coming' | p. 55 |
C. K. Stead on 'Easter 1916' | p. 62 |
J. R. Mulryne on 'Lapis Lazuli' | p. 66 |
Harold Bloom on The Wind among the Reeds and 'The Secret Rose' | p. 69 |
Denis Donoghue on 'The Secret Rose' and 'Adam's Curse' | p. 71 |
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford on Yeats and Fascism | p. 74 |
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford on 'Among School Children' | p. 76 |
M. L. Rosenthal on 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' | p. 80 |
Declan Kiberd on 'Leda and the Swan' | p. 83 |
Marjorie Howes on 'Meditations in Time of Civil War' | p. 84 |
Daniel Albright on symbolism in Yeats | p. 85 |
Michael O'Neill on 'The Circus Animals' Desertion' | p. 87 |
Introduction | p. 93 |
Key Poems | p. 95 |
The Song of the Happy Shepherd | p. 95 |
The Lake Isle of Innisfree | p. 97 |
The Sorrow of Love | p. 98 |
When You are Old | p. 99 |
Who Goes with Fergus? | p. 100 |
To Ireland in the Coming Times | p. 101 |
The Hosting of the Sidhe | p. 103 |
The Moods | p. 105 |
The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart | p. 105 |
The Song of Wandering Aengus | p. 106 |
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love | p. 107 |
A Poet to his Beloved | p. 108 |
To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear | p. 108 |
The Valley of the Black Pig | p. 109 |
The Secret Rose | p. 109 |
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | p. 111 |
Adam's Curse | p. 111 |
No Second Troy | p. 113 |
The Fascination of What's Difficult | p. 114 |
September 1913 | p. 115 |
Paudeen | p. 117 |
Fallen Majesty | p. 118 |
The Cold Heaven | p. 118 |
The Wild Swans at Coole | p. 119 |
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory | p. 121 |
The Fisherman | p. 125 |
Broken Dreams | p. 127 |
Ego Dominus Tuus | p. 129 |
Easter 1916 | p. 132 |
The Second Coming | p. 134 |
A Prayer for my Daughter | p. 136 |
Sailing to Byzantium | p. 137 |
The Tower | p. 140 |
Meditations in Time of Civil War | p. 147 |
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen | p. 155 |
Leda and the Swan | p. 161 |
Among School Children | p. 163 |
A Dialogue of Self and Soul | p. 167 |
Byzantium | p. 168 |
The Gyres | p. 171 |
Lapis Lazuli | p. 173 |
Beautiful Lofty Things | p. 175 |
Under Ben Bulben | p. 176 |
Long-legged Fly | p. 177 |
Man and the Echo | p. 179 |
The Circus Animals' Desertion | p. 180 |
Politics | p. 181 |
Editions of Yeats's Poetry | p. 185 |
Editions of Yeats's Prose | p. 185 |
Biographies | p. 186 |
Selected Criticism | p. 186 |
Index | p. 189 |
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