Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Yeats's Life; A Brief Outline of Irish History; A Note on the Text; A Note on the Spelling of Gaelic Names; General Commentary; Brief Notes on Style and Metre; Symbolism: The DanceroThe SwanoThe ToweroThe Gyre; Magic, Myth and Legend; Nationalism and Politics; The Poet's Vision; History and Civilization; People; Places; Summaries; Summaries and Commentaries on Single Poems and Summaries of the Poetry Collections 1889-1939 as listed in Collected Poems; Suggestions for Further Reading; Title Index of Poems Summarized; Index of First Lines of Poems Summarized; General Index.
- ISBN10 0389209058
- ISBN13 9780389209058
- Publish Date 13 September 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Barnes & Noble Books-Imports, Div of Rowman & Littlefield Pubs., Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 250
- Language English