In Excited Reverie: A Centenary Tribute to William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

Front Matter....Pages i-viii W. B. Yeats: A Dublin Portrait....Pages 1-13 William Butler Yeats: Personality....Pages 14-23 John Butler Yeats....Pages 24-47 The Earlier Poems: Some Themes and Patterns....Pages 48-67 Ingenium Omnia Vincit....Pages 68-68 ‘He too was in Arcadia’: Yeats and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall....Pages 69-92 Yeats on Spenser....Pages 93-101 The Rhetoric of Yeats....Pages 102-122 ‘Among School Children’ and the Education of the Irish Spirit....Pages 123-150 William Butler Yeats....Pages 151-151 Some Yeatsian Versions of Comedy....Pages 152-170 Yeats as Anthologist....Pages 171-192 Yeats....Pages 193-193 The Variorum Edition of Yeats’s Plays....Pages 194-206 Passion and Cunning: An Essay on the Politics of W. B. Yeats....Pages 207-278 Anarchy....Pages 279-279 Yeats’s Arabic Interests....Pages 280-314 The Fascination of What’s Difficult: A Survey of Yeats Criticism and Research....Pages 315-337 Back Matter....Pages 338-354