Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Popular Audiences and Poetical Culture; The Native Strain; The Lie, the Text and Society; 3 'Divine Essences' in an Earthly Language: Ideas of Good and Evil; Divergent Paths; Controversy and 'the Deepening Shades'; En-chanted Symbolist; 4 Cutting the Irish Agate; Life's Circumstances; Fall of the Society of Imagination; Revival of Language; Life, not Morality; Poet Among Masks; 5 Per Amica Silentia Lunae: An Intertwining of Paths; Essay as Prose Poem; Treatise on Poetry; Exploring Dimensions of Love: Iseult Gonne

An Antithetical Moment6 Dichotomies Multiplied: A Vision; Binary on Binary Mirrored; Antithetical Freedom in a Primary World; 7 The Modern World and Yeats's Discontents; The Rise and Fall of the Blueshirt Promise; Life's Sections; The Drama of the Soul and the Oxford Book of Modern Verse; The Irish Difference: Essays 1931-1936; 8 Searching for Completion: 'On Modern Poetry' and 'A General Introduction for My Work'; Broadcasting Poetry; Looking Back: 'General Introduction for My Work'; 9 Da Capo al Fine: He the Great Gazebo Built(?); Works Cited; Name Index; Subject Index.