A. NORMAN JEFFARES is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling. He has taught at the Universities of Dublin, Groningen, Edinburgh, Adelaide and Leeds. He has edited and written many books on Irish and other authors, and is General Editor of the Macmillan History of Literature, to which he has contributed Anglo-Irish Literature (1982). Macmillan also publish his New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (1984).

• IntroductionAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPART 1: POEMSThe Craft of PoetryDreamsIrish Mythology RevivedFriends and FriendshipIrish Characters and PlacesThe Poet's FamilyMoods and MeditationsIrish Narrative PoemsAnglo-Irish AttitudesLove and SexThe SupernaturalForm the PlaysIdiosyncrasies and GrotesqueriesArcadian and Indian PoemsThe Thought of A VisionAdaptations and TranslationsAge and AfterPolitics and PolemicsBibliographical SummaryNotesAppendicesBibliographyIndexes.