Learning the trade Book

	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction
	Acknowledgments
	Questioning Yeats: Paul Muldoon's "7, Middagh Street"	3
	Yeats, Muldoon, and Heroic History	21
	Contrasting Landscapes: John Hewitt's Rural Vision and Yeats's Irish World	39
	"No saint or hero ... / Brings dangerous tokens to the new era": Derek Mahon and Tess Gallagher's Revisions of Yeats's "The Magi"	47
	A Modest Refusal: Yeats, MacNeice, and Irish Poetry	71
	Interview with Desmond Egan	89
	The Little Red Fox, Emblem of the Irish Peasant in Poems by Yeats, Tynan, and Ni Dhomhnaill	113
	Re-envisioning Yeats's "The Second Coming": Desmond O'Grady and the Charles River	135
	From Yeats's "Great Wheel" to O'Siadhail's "Image Wheel"	149
	Medbh McGuckian: Imagery Wrought to Its Uttermost	165
	Eavan Boland's Journey with the Muse	179
	Pastoral Nostalgia and the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney	195
	Time Against Time: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats and Heaney	203
	Detour to the "Alltombing Womb": Amiri Baraka's Assault on Yeats's Muse	219
	W. B. Yeats's Ireland and James Wright's Ohio	237
	An Influence Survived: Roethke and Yeats	253
	Self-Delighting Souls, Self-Enclosed Egos: Yeats and Galway Kinnell	265
	Angels in the Bone Shop	281
	Index	305