- 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


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