Acknowledgments

Preface

I. Lyric Form in Yeats's Poetry: Prophecy, Love, and Revolution

II. Antechamber and Afterlife: Byzantium and the Delphic Oracle

III. The Puzzle of Sequence: Two Political Poems

IV. "Magical" Techniques in the Early Poems

V. Tales, Feelings, Farewells: Three Stages of the Yeatsian Ballad

VI. Troubling the Tradition: Yeats at Sonnets

VII. The Nationalist Measure: Trimeter-Quatrain Poems

VIII. Marches and the Examination of Conscience: The Tetrameter Line

IX. The Medium of Instruction: Doctrine in Blank Verse

X. The Renaissance Aura: Ottava Rima Poems

XI. The Spacious Lyric: Long Stanzas, Irregular Lines

XII. Primitivism and the Grotesque: "Supernatural Songs"

XIII. Rare Forms

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Photo of Helen Vendler: Mary Lee

Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

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