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Introduction | xi | |
A Note on the Texts | xxi | |
Acknowledgments | xxv | |
Poems | 1 | |
from Crossways (1889) | ||
The Song of the Happy Shepherd | 3 | |
The Sad Shepherd | 4 | |
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes | 5 | |
The Indian to His Love | 6 | |
The Falling of the Leaves | 6 | |
Ephemera (2 versions) | 7 | |
The Stolen Child | 8 | |
To an Isle in the Water | 10 | |
Down by the Salley Gardens | 10 | |
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman | 11 | |
from the Rose (1892) | ||
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time | 12 | |
Fergus and the Druid | 13 | |
The Rose of the World | 14 | |
The Lake Isle of Innisfree | 15 | |
The Pity of Love | 15 | |
The Sorrow of Love (2 versions) | 16 | |
When You are Old | 17 | |
The White Birds | 17 | |
[Who goes with Fergus?] | 18 | |
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists (2 versions) | 18 | |
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner (2 versions) | 20 | |
To Ireland in the Coming Times | 21 | |
from the Wind Among the Reeds (1899) | ||
The Hosting of the Sidhe | 23 | |
The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart | 23 | |
The Fisherman [The Fish] | 24 | |
The Song of Wandering Aengus | 24 | |
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love | 25 | |
He reproves the Curlew | 25 | |
He remembers Forgotten Beauty | 25 | |
A Poet to his Beloved | 26 | |
He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes | 26 | |
To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear | 27 | |
The Cap and Bells | 27 | |
He hears the Cry of the Sedge | 28 | |
He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved | 28 | |
The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends | 29 | |
He wishes his Beloved were Dead | 29 | |
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | 29 | |
from in the Seven Woods (1903) | ||
In the Seven Woods | 30 | |
The Arrow | 30 | |
The Folly of Being Comforted | 31 | |
Never Give all the Heart | 31 | |
Adam's Curse | 32 | |
Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland | 33 | |
The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water | 33 | |
O Do Not Love Too Long | 34 | |
from the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) | ||
His Dream | 35 | |
A Woman Homer Sung | 35 | |
The Consolation [Words] | 36 | |
No Second Troy | 37 | |
Reconciliation | 37 | |
The Fascination of What's Difficult | 37 | |
A Drinking Song | 38 | |
The Coming of Wisdom with Time | 38 | |
On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature | 38 | |
To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine | 39 | |
The Mask | 39 | |
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation | 40 | |
All Things can Tempt Me | 40 | |
The Young Man's Song [Brown Penny] | 40 | |
from Responsibilities (1914) | ||
[Introductory Rhymes] | 42 | |
To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures | 43 | |
September 1913 | 44 | |
To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing | 45 | |
Paudeen | 45 | |
The Three Beggars | 46 | |
Beggar to Beggar Cried | 47 | |
I. | The Witch | 48 |
II. | The Peacock | 48 |
To a Child Dancing in the Wind | 49 | |
[Two Years Later] | 49 | |
Fallen Majesty | 50 | |
Friends | 50 | |
The Cold Heaven | 51 | |
The Magi | 51 | |
The Dolls | 52 | |
A Coat | 52 | |
[Closing Rhymes] | 53 | |
from the Wild Swans at Coole (1917) | ||
The Wild Swans at Coole | 54 | |
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory | 55 | |
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death | 58 | |
Men Improve with the Years | 58 | |
The Living Beauty | 59 | |
A Song | 59 | |
The Scholars (2 versions) | 60 | |
Lines Written in Dejection | 61 | |
On Woman | 61 | |
The Fisherrnan | 62 | |
The People | 63 | |
Broken Dreams | 64 | |
The Balloon of the Mind | 65 | |
On being asked for a War Poem | 65 | |
Ego Dominus Tuus | 66 | |
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes | 68 | |
from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) | ||
Michael Robartes and the Dancer | 71 | |
Easter, 1916 | 73 | |
On a Political Prisoner | 75 | |
The Second Coming | 76 | |
A Prayer for my Daughter | 76 | |
To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee | 79 | |
from the Tower (1928) | ||
Sailing to Byzantium | 80 | |
The Tower | 81 | |
Meditations in Time of Civil War | 86 | |
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen | 92 | |
A Prayer for my Son | 95 | |
Leda and the Swan | 96 | |
Among School Children | 97 | |
All Souls' Night | 99 | |
from the Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) | ||
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz | 102 | |
A Dialogue of Self and Soul | 103 | |
Blood and the Moon | 105 | |
Coole Park, 1929 | 106 | |
The Choice | 107 | |
Byzantium | 108 | |
Vacillation | 109 | |
Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop | 112 | |
Father and Child | 112 | |
from a Full Moon in March (1935) | ||
A Prayer for Old Age | 113 | |
The Four Ages of Man | 113 | |
from New Poems (1938) | ||
The Gyres | 114 | |
Lapis Lazuli | 115 | |
Imitated from the Japanese | 116 | |
What Then? | 116 | |
Beautiful Lofty Things | 117 | |
Come Gather Round Me Parnellites | 118 | |
The Great Day | 119 | |
Parnell | 119 | |
The Spur | 119 | |
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited | 119 | |
from Last Poems (1939) | ||
Under Ben Bulben | 122 | |
The Black Tower | 125 | |
Long-legged Fly | 126 | |
High Talk | 126 | |
Man and the Echo | 127 | |
The Circus Animals' Desertion | 128 | |
Politics | 130 | |
Plays | 131 | |
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) | 133 | |
On Baile's Strand (1903) | 141 | |
At the Hawk's Well (1917) | 160 | |
Purgatory (1939) | 169 | |
Prose | 175 | |
Prose Fiction and Folklore Writings | ||
from The Celtic Twilight (1893) | ||
This Book | 177 | |
Belief and Unbelief | 178 | |
Drumcliff and Rosses | 179 | |
from The Celtic Twilight (1902) | ||
'Dust hath closed Helen's Eye' | 183 | |
Enchanted Woods | 188 | |
By the Roadside | 190 | |
from The Secret Rose (1897) | ||
The Crucifixion of the Outcast | 192 | |
The Old Men of the Twilight | 197 | |
from Stories of Red Hanrahan (1904) | ||
The Twisting of the Rope | 200 | |
The Death of Hanrahan | 205 | |
Autobiographical Writings | ||
from Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916) | 210 | |
from The Trembling of the Veil (1922) | ||
from Book I. Four Years: 1887-1891 | 219 | |
from Book II. Ireland after Parnell | 222 | |
from Memoris: Autobiography (written 1916-17, published 1972) | 225 | |
from The Trembling of the Veil (1922) | ||
from Book III. Hodos Chameliontos | 240 | |
from Book IV. The Tragic Generation | 242 | |
from Book V. The Stirring of the Bones | 244 | |
from Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902 (1935) | 247 | |
from Memoirs: Journal (written 1909, published 1972) | 250 | |
from Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944) | 254 | |
Critical Writings | ||
Hopes and Fears for Irish Literature (1892) | 258 | |
The De-Anglicising of Ireland (1892) | 261 | |
from The Message of the Folk-lorist (1893) | 262 | |
from The Celtic Element in Literature (1898) | 264 | |
The Irish Literary Theatre (1899) | 267 | |
from Irish Language and Irish Literature (1900) | 269 | |
from The Symbolism of Poetry (1900) | 271 | |
from Magic (1901) | 275 | |
The Reform of the Theatre (1903) | 277 | |
On Taking 'The Playboy' to London (1907) | 279 | |
The Play of Modern Manners (1908) | 279 | |
A Tower on the Apennines (1908) | 280 | |
from Poetry and Tradition (1908) | 281 | |
from First Principles (1908) | 282 | |
from Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918) | ||
from Anima Hominis | 285 | |
from Anima Mundi | 287 | |
from A People's Theatre (1919) | 290 | |
from The Bounty of Sweden (1925) | 292 | |
from Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) | 293 | |
from A Vision (1937) | ||
from Introduction | 298 | |
from Book I: The Great Wheel | 299 | |
Essays for the Scribner Edition of Yeats's Collected Works (1937) | ||
Introduction | 300 | |
from Introduction to Essays | 312 | |
Introduction to Plays | 313 | |
from On the Boiler (1939) | ||
from Preliminaries | 315 | |
from To-morrow's Revolution | 316 | |
Criticism | ||
Criticism by Yeats's Contemporaries | ||
[Review of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems] | 321 | |
[Review of Poems (1899) and The Wind Among the Reeds] | 321 | |
[Review of Responsibilities] | 323 | |
from Vale | 325 | |
[Review of The Wild Swans at Coole] | 327 | |
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats | 327 | |
Yeats and Ireland | 331 | |
Recent Critical and Biographical Studies | ||
The Prelude | 334 | |
[Yeats and the Occult] | 336 | |
Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889 | 339 | |
Revolt into Style--Yeatsian Poetics | 340 | |
Yeats's Waves | 346 | |
The Elegiac Love Poems: A Woman Dead and Gon(n)e | 349 | |
The Wind Among the Reeds | 356 | |
Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats | 358 | |
Yeats's "Written Speech": Writing, Hearing and Performance | 366 | |
Yeats and the Lettered Page | 370 | |
The Taste of Salt 1902-1903 | 379 | |
The Aesthetics of Antinomy | 382 | |
W. B. Yeats: Cultural Nationalism | 387 | |
"Easter, 1916" and the Balladic Elegies | 394 | |
Shrill Voices, Accursed Opinions | 399 | |
"Friendship Is the Only House I Have": Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats | 407 | |
The Passionate Syntax | 413 | |
Hawk and Butterfly: The Double Vision of The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919) | 416 | |
W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee | 429 | |
In the Bedroom of the Big House | 439 | |
Between Hatred and Desire: Sexuality and Subterfuge in "A Prayer for my Daughter" | 444 | |
The Rhetorical Question: "Among School Children" | 455 | |
The Resistance to Sentimentality: Yeats, de Man, and the Aesthetic Education | 457 | |
Desire and Hunger in "Among School Children" | 458 | |
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