The Ballads and Songs of W. B. Yeats: The Anglo-Irish Heritage in Subject and Style

## Vll to his vitality as a poet; and it is nowhere more evident than in his ballads and songs. They illustrate the changes in Yeats's view of popular poetry and its audience, and mark predominant features in the evolution of his style. In addition to those listed in the footnotes and bibliography, I wish to acknowledge my general debt to the following critical works which contain material relevant to my subject: E.A. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Popular Nationalism 1885–1892....Pages 1-23 Imaginative Nationalism....Pages 24-46 The True Tradition: Translations from the Gaelic....Pages 47-64 Yeats’s Debt to Anglo-Irish Dialect....Pages 65-90 Ballad Rhetoric....Pages 91-103 Passionate Syntax....Pages 104-123 Back Matter....Pages 124-141