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Introduction | |
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A Note on the Texts | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Poems | |
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from Crossways (1889) | |
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The Song of the Happy Shepherd | |
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The Sad Shepherd | |
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The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes | |
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The Indian to His Love | |
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The Falling of the Leaves | |
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Ephemera (2 versions) | |
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The Stolen Child | |
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To an Isle in the Water | |
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Down by the Salley Gardens | |
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The Meditation of the Old Fisherman | |
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from the Rose (1892) | |
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To the Rose upon the Rood of Time | |
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Fergus and the Druid | |
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The Rose of the World | |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
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The Pity of Love | |
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The Sorrow of Love (2 versions) | |
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When You are Old | |
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The White Birds | |
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[Who goes with Fergus?] | |
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The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists (2 versions) | |
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The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner (2 versions) | |
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To Ireland in the Coming Times | |
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from the Wind Among the Reeds (1899) | |
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The Hosting of the Sidhe | |
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The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart | |
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The Fisherman [The Fish] | |
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The Song of Wandering Aengus | |
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The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love | |
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He reproves the Curlew | |
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He remembers Forgotten Beauty | |
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A Poet to his Beloved | |
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He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes | |
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To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear | |
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The Cap and Bells | |
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He hears the Cry of the Sedge | |
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He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved | |
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The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends | |
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He wishes his Beloved were Dead | |
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He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | |
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from in the Seven Woods (1903) | |
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In the Seven Woods | |
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The Arrow | |
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The Folly of Being Comforted | |
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Never Give all the Heart | |
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Adam's Curse | |
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Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland | |
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The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water | |
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O Do Not Love Too Long | |
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from the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) | |
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His Dream | |
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A Woman Homer Sung | |
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The Consolation [Words] | |
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No Second Troy | |
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Reconciliation | |
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The Fascination of What's Difficult | |
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A Drinking Song | |
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The Coming of Wisdom with Time | |
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On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature | |
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To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine | |
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The Mask | |
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Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation | |
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All Things can Tempt Me | |
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The Young Man's Song [Brown Penny] | |
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from Responsibilities (1914) | |
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[Introductory Rhymes] | |
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To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures | |
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September 1913 | |
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To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing | |
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Paudeen | |
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The Three Beggars | |
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Beggar to Beggar Cried | |
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The Witch | |
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The Peacock | |
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To a Child Dancing in the Wind | |
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[Two Years Later] | |
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Fallen Majesty | |
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Friends | |
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The Cold Heaven | |
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The Magi | |
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The Dolls | |
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A Coat | |
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[Closing Rhymes] | |
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from the Wild Swans at Coole (1917) | |
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The Wild Swans at Coole | |
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In Memory of Major Robert Gregory | |
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An Irish Airman Foresees his Death | |
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Men Improve with the Years | |
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The Living Beauty | |
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A Song | |
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The Scholars (2 versions) | |
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Lines Written in Dejection | |
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On Woman | |
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The Fisherrnan | |
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The People | |
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Broken Dreams | |
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The Balloon of the Mind | |
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On being asked for a War Poem | |
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Ego Dominus Tuus | |
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The Double Vision of Michael Robartes | |
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from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) | |
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Michael Robartes and the Dancer | |
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Easter, 1916 | |
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On a Political Prisoner | |
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The Second Coming | |
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A Prayer for my Daughter | |
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To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee | |
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from the Tower (1928) | |
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Sailing to Byzantium | |
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The Tower | |
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Meditations in Time of Civil War | |
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Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen | |
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A Prayer for my Son | |
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Leda and the Swan | |
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Among School Children | |
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All Souls' Night | |
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from the Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) | |
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In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz | |
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A Dialogue of Self and Soul | |
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Blood and the Moon | |
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Coole Park, 1929 | |
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The Choice | |
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Byzantium | |
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Vacillation | |
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Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop | |
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Father and Child | |
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from a Full Moon in March (1935) | |
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A Prayer for Old Age | |
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The Four Ages of Man | |
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from New Poems (1938) | |
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The Gyres | |
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Lapis Lazuli | |
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Imitated from the Japanese | |
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What Then? | |
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Beautiful Lofty Things | |
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Come Gather Round Me Parnellites | |
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The Great Day | |
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Parnell | |
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The Spur | |
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The Municipal Gallery Re-visited | |
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from Last Poems (1939) | |
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Under Ben Bulben | |
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The Black Tower | |
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Long-legged Fly | |
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High Talk | |
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Man and the Echo | |
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The Circus Animals' Desertion | |
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Politics | |
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Plays | |
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Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) | |
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On Baile's Strand (1903) | |
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At the Hawk's Well (1917) | |
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Purgatory (1939) | |
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Prose | |
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Prose Fiction and Folklore Writings | |
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from The Celtic Twilight (1893) | |
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This Book | |
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Belief and Unbelief | |
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Drumcliff and Rosses | |
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from The Celtic Twilight (1902) | |
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'Dust hath closed Helen's Eye' | |
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Enchanted Woods | |
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By the Roadside | |
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from The Secret Rose (1897) | |
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The Crucifixion of the Outcast | |
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The Old Men of the Twilight | |
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from Stories of Red Hanrahan (1904) | |
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The Twisting of the Rope | |
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The Death of Hanrahan | |
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Autobiographical Writings | |
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from Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916) | |
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from The Trembling of the Veil (1922) | |
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from Book I. Four Years: 1887-1891 | |
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from Book II. Ireland after Parnell | |
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from Memoris: Autobiography (written 1916-17, published 1972) | |
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from The Trembling of the Veil (1922) | |
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from Book III. Hodos Chameliontos | |
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from Book IV. The Tragic Generation | |
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from Book V. The Stirring of the Bones | |
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from Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902 (1935) | |
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from Memoirs: Journal (written 1909, published 1972) | |
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from Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944) | |
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Critical Writings | |
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Hopes and Fears for Irish Literature (1892) | |
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The De-Anglicising of Ireland (1892) | |
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from The Message of the Folk-lorist (1893) | |
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from The Celtic Element in Literature (1898) | |
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The Irish Literary Theatre (1899) | |
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from Irish Language and Irish Literature (1900) | |
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from The Symbolism of Poetry (1900) | |
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from Magic (1901) | |
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The Reform of the Theatre (1903) | |
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On Taking 'The Playboy' to London (1907) | |
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The Play of Modern Manners (1908) | |
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A Tower on the Apennines (1908) | |
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from Poetry and Tradition (1908) | |
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from First Principles (1908) | |
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from Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918) | |
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from Anima Hominis | |
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from Anima Mundi | |
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from A People's Theatre (1919) | |
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from The Bounty of Sweden (1925) | |
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from Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) | |
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from A Vision (1937) | |
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from Introduction | |
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from Book I: The Great Wheel | |
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Essays for the Scribner Edition of Yeats's Collected Works (1937) | |
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Introduction | |
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from Introduction to Essays | |
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Introduction to Plays | |
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from On the Boiler (1939) | |
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from Preliminaries | |
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from To-morrow's Revolution | |
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Criticism | |
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Criticism by Yeats's Contemporaries | |
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[Review of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems] | |
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[Review of Poems (1899) and The Wind Among the Reeds] | |
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[Review of Responsibilities] | |
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from Vale | |
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[Review of The Wild Swans at Coole] | |
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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats | |
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Yeats and Ireland | |
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Recent Critical and Biographical Studies | |
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The Prelude | |
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[Yeats and the Occult] | |
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Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889 | |
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Revolt into Style--Yeatsian Poetics | |
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Yeats's Waves | |
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The Elegiac Love Poems: A Woman Dead and Gon(n)e | |
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The Wind Among the Reeds | |
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Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats | |
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Yeats's "Written Speech": Writing, Hearing and Performance | |
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Yeats and the Lettered Page | |
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The Taste of Salt 1902-1903 | |
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The Aesthetics of Antinomy | |
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W. B. Yeats: Cultural Nationalism | |
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"Easter, 1916" and the Balladic Elegies | |
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Shrill Voices, Accursed Opinions | |
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"Friendship Is the Only House I Have": Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats | |
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The Passionate Syntax | |
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Hawk and Butterfly: The Double Vision of The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919) | |
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W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee | |
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In the Bedroom of the Big House | |
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Between Hatred and Desire: Sexuality and Subterfuge in "A Prayer for my Daughter" | |
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The Rhetorical Question: "Among School Children" | |
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The Resistance to Sentimentality: Yeats, de Man, and the Aesthetic Education | |
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Desire and Hunger in "Among School Children" | |
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Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the Economy of Indebtedness | |
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Away | |
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The Rule of Kindred | |
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Politics and Public Life | |
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Yeats: A Chronology | |
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Bibliographical and Textual Appendix | |
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Selected Bibliography | |
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Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems | |