Yeats's Poetry and Poetics brings together some of the finest Yeats criticism ever published, together with some new pieces specially written for this volume.
Preface - Abbreviations - POETICS - 'Marbles of the Dancing Floor': Image, Symbol and Dancer - 'Written Speech': Writing, Hearing and Performance - FELLOW POETS - A Daintical Pair of Accomplasses: Yeats and Joyce - 'Tara Uprooted': Yeats and Modernism - Yeats, Synge and the Georgians - PHANTASMAGORIA - The Presence of the Poet: or, What Sat Down at the Breakfast Table? - Mr Yeats, Michael Robartes and their Circle - FAERY BRIDES - First Work for the Stage: the Earliest Versions of The Countess Kathleen - The Allegory of The Wanderings of Oisin - Notes - Index