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Tables of Contents for Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
A Note on the Texts
xxi
Acknowledgments
xxv
Poems
1
130
From Crossways (1889)
The Song of the Happy Shepherd
3
1
The Sad Shepherd
4
1
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
5
1
The Indian to His Love
6
1
The Falling of the Leaves
6
1
Ephemera (2 versions)
7
1
The Stolen Child
8
2
To an Isle in the Water
10
1
Down by the Salley Gardens
10
1
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
11
1
From the Rose (1872)
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
12
1
Fergus and the Druid
13
1
The Rose of the World
14
1
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
15
1
The Pity of Love
15
1
The Sorrow of Love (2 versions)
16
1
When You are Old
17
1
The White Birds
17
1
[Who goes with Fergus?]
18
1
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists (2 versions)
18
2
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner (2 versions)
20
1
To Ireland in the Coming Times
21
2
From the Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
The Hosting of the Sidhe
23
1
The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart
23
1
The Fisherman [The Fish]
24
1
The Song of Wandering Aengus
24
1
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love
25
1
The reproves the Curlew
25
1
He remembers Forgotten Beauty
25
1
A Poet to his Beloved
26
1
He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes
26
1
To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear
27
1
The Cap and Bells
27
1
He hears the Cry of the Sedge
28
1
He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved
28
1
The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends
29
1
He wishes his Beloved were Dead
29
1
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
29
1
From in the Seven Woods (1903)
In the Seven Woods
30
1
The Arrow
30
1
The Folly of Being Comforted
31
1
Never Give all the Heart
31
1
Adam's Curse
32
1
Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland
33
1
The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
33
1
O Do Not Love Too Long
34
1
From the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
His Dream
35
1
A Woman Homer Sung
35
1
The Consolation [Words]
36
1
No Second Troy
37
1
Reconciliation
37
1
The Fascination of What's Difficult
37
1
A Drinking Song
38
1
The Coming of Wisdom with Time
38
1
On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature
38
1
To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
39
1
The Mask
39
1
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation
40
1
All Things can Tempt Me
40
1
The Young Man's Song [Brown Penny]
40
2
From Responsibilities (1914)
[Introductory Rhymes]
42
1
To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures
43
1
September 1913
44
1
To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing
45
1
Paudeen
45
1
The Three Beggars
46
1
Beggar to Beggar Cried
47
1
I. The Witch
48
1
II. The Peacock
48
1
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
49
1
[Two Years Later]
49
1
Fallen Majesty
50
1
Friends
50
1
The Cold Heaven
51
1
The Magi
51
1
The Dolls
52
1
A Coat
52
1
[Closing Rhymes]
53
1
From the Wild Swans at Coole (1917)
The Wild Swans at Coole
54
1
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
55
3
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
58
1
Men Improve with the Years
58
1
The Living Beauty
59
1
A Song
59
1
The Scholars (2 versions)
60
1
Lines Written in Dejection
61
1
On Woman
61
1
The Fisherman
62
1
The People
63
1
Broken Dreams
64
1
The Balloon of the Mind
65
1
On being asked for a War Poem
65
1
Ego Dominus Tuus
66
2
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
68
3
From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
71
2
Easter, 1916
73
2
On a Political Prisoner
75
1
The Second Coming
76
1
A Prayer for my Daughter
76
3
To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
79
1
From the Tower (1928)
Sailing to Byzantium
80
1
The Tower
81
5
Meditations in Time of Civil War
86
6
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
92
3
A Prayer for my Son
95
1
Leda and the Swan
96
1
Among School Children
97
2
All Souls' Night
99
3
From the Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
102
1
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
103
2
Blood and the Moon
105
1
Coole Park, 1929
106
1
The Choice
107
1
Byzantium
108
1
Vacillation
109
3
Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop
112
1
Father and Child
112
1
From a Full Moon in March (1935)
A Prayer for Old Age
113
1
The Four Ages of Man
113
1
From New Poems (1938)
The Gyres
114
1
Lapis Lazuli
115
1
Imitated from the Japanese
116
1
What Then?
116
1
Beautiful Lofty Things
117
1
Come Gather Round Me Parnellites
118
1
The Great Day
119
1
Parnell
119
1
The Spur
119
1
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited
119
3
From Last Poems (1939)
Under Ben Bulben
122
3
The Black Tower
125
1
Long-legged Fly
126
1
High Talk
126
1
Man and the Echo
127
1
The Circus Animals' Desertion
128
2
Politics
130
1
Plays
131
44
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
133
8
On Baile's Strand (1903)
141
19
At the Hawk's Well (1917)
160
9
Purgatory (1939)
169
6
Prose
175
314
Prose Fiction and Folklore Writings
From The Celtic Twilight (1893)
This Book
177
1
Belief and Unbelief
178
1
Drumcliff and Rosses
179
4
From The Celtic Twilight (1902)
`Dust hath closed Helen's Eye'
183
5
Enchanted Woods
188
2
By the Roadside
190
2
From The Secret Rose (1897)
The Crucifixion of the Outcast
192
5
The Old Men of the Twilight
197
3
From Stories of Red Hanrahan (1904)
The Twisting of the Rope
200
5
The Death of Hanrahan
205
5
Autobiographical Writings
From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)
210
9
From The Trembling of the Veil (1922)
From Book I. Four Years: 1887--1891
219
3
From Book II. Ireland after Parnell
222
3
From Memoirs: Autobiography (written 1916--17, published 1972)
225
15
From The Trembling of the Veil (1922)
From Book III. Hodos Chameliontos
240
2
From Book IV. The Tragic Generation
242
2
From Book V. The Stirring of the Bones
244
3
From Dramatis Personae, 1896--1902 (1935)
247
3
From Memoirs: Journal (written 1909, published 1972)
250
4
From Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944)
254
4
Critical Writings
Hopes and Fears for Irish Literature (1892)
258
3
The De-Anglicising of Ireland (1892)
261
1
From The Message of the Folk-lorist (1893)
262
2
From The Celtic Element in Literature (1898)
264
3
The Irish Literary Theatre (1899)
267
2
From Irish Language and Irish Literature (1900)
269
2
From The Symbolism of Poetry (1900)
271
4
From Magic (1901)
275
2
The Reform of the Theatre (1903)
277
2
On Taking `The Playboy' to London (1907)
279
1
The Play of Modern Manners (1908)
279
1
A Tower on the Apennines (1908)
280
1
From Poetry and Tradition (1908)
281
1
From First Principles (1908)
282
3
From Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918)
From Anima Hominis
285
2
From Anima Mundi
287
3
From A People's Theatre (1919)
290
2
From The Bounty of Sweden (1925)
292
1
From Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936)
293
5
From A Vision (1937)
From Introduction
298
1
From Book I: The Great Wheel
299
1
Essays for the Scribner Edition of Yeats's Collected Works (1937)
Introduction
300
12
From Introduction to Essays
312
1
Introduction to Plays
313
2
From On the Boiler (1939)
From Preliminaries
315
1
From To-morrow's Revolution
316
5
Criticism
Criticism by Yeats's Contemporaries
[Review of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems]
321
1
Oscar Wilde
[Review of Poems (1899) and The Wind Among the Reeds]
321
2
Arthur Symons
[Review of Responsibilities]
323
2
Ezra Pound
From Vale
325
2
George Moore
[Review of The Wild Swans at Coole]
327
1
Marianne Moore
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
327
4
T. S. Eliot
Yeats and Ireland
331
3
Maud Gonne
Recent Critical and Biographical Studies
The Prelude
334
5
Richard Ellmann
[Yeats and the Occult]
336
3
Two Years: Bedford Park 1887--1889
339
1
R. F. Foster
Revolt into Style---Yeatsian Poetics
340
6
Declan Kiberd
Yeats' Waves
346
3
Daniel Albright
The Elegiac Love Poems: A Woman Dead and Gon(n)e
349
7
Jahan Ramazani
The Wind Among the Reeds
356
2
Harold Bloom
Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats
358
8
Helen Vendler
Yeats's ``Written Speech'': Writing, Hearing and Performance
366
4
Michael J. Sidnell
Yeats and the Lettered page
370
9
Lucy McDiarmid
The Taste of Salt 1902--1903
379
3
R. F. Foster
The Aesthetics of Antinomy
382
5
George Bornstein
W. B. Yeats: Cultural Nationalism
387
7
Michael North
``Easter, 1916'' and the Balladic Elegies
394
5
Jahan Ramazani
Shrill Voices, Accursed Opinions
399
8
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
``Friendship Is the Only House I Have'': Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats
407
6
John Kelly
The Passionate Syntax
413
3
Thomas Parkinson
Hawk and Butterfly: The Double Vision of The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919)
416
13
Ronald Schuchard
W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee
429
10
Seamus Heaney
In the Bedroom of the Big House
439
5
Marjorie Howes
Between Hatred and Desire: Sexuality and Subterfuge in ``A Prayer for my Daughter''
444
11
Marjorie Perloff
The Rhetorical Question: ``Among School Children''
455
2
Paul de Man
The Resistance to Sentimentality: Yeats, de Man, and the Aesthetic Education
457
1
Anita Sokolsky
Desire and Hunger in ``Among School Children''
458
13
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the Economy of Indebtedness
471
6
James L. Pethica
Away
477
5
Deirdre Toomey
The Rule of Kindred
482
2
Marjorie Howes
Politics and Public Life
484
5
Douglas Archibald
Yeats: A Chronology
489
6
Bibliographical and Textual Appendix
495
16
Selected Bibliography
511
4
Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems
515