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Achebe, Chinua, 77 Allt, Peter, 116 Adams, Hazard, 120, 124, 132 n. 16 Alspach, Russell K., 116 Adams, Steve L., 130 n. 3 Anglo-Irish War, see War of AE, see Russell, George Independence afterlife, reincarnation, or lunar Anglo-Irish, see Catholics or phases: in “Shepherd and Catholicism, Protestants or Goatherd” and “The Phases of Protestantism the Moon,” 68–70; and dancer Archibald, Douglas, 125, 131 n. 4 symbolism, 76; and The Tower, aristocracy: and The Countess 81; and “Nineteen Hundred and Cathleen, 15; and Lady Gregory, Nineteen,” 88; and “Among 38–39; and On Baile’s Strand, School Children,” 91; and The Cat 43–44; and The King’s Threshold, and the Moon, 94; and “A 44–45; and masks, 53; and The Dialogue of Self and Soul,” 94–96; Green Helmet, 55; and The Green and “Blood and the Moon,” 96; Helmet and Other Poems, 57; and and “Byzantium,” 97–98; and “To a Wealthy Man …,” 60; and “Crazy Jane and Jack the Noh drama, 72, 73; and the Journeyman,” 99; and “In Gore-Booth sisters, 74–75; and Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and “The Second Coming,” 77; and Con Markievicz,” 100; and On the “The Tower,” 85; and “Ancestral Boiler, 103; and Yeats’s late Houses,” 85; and the Blueshirts, aggressiveness, 105; and “Under 102; and Purgatory, 112–13; Ben Bulben,” 109; and discussed by Yeats’s critics, 122, “Cuchulain Comforted,” 111; and 123; see also Catholics or Purgatory, 112–13 Catholicism, Protestants or aisling, 31, 41 Protestantism and eugenics Albright, Daniel, 132 n. 13 Aristotle, 90 Allingham, William, 12 Armstrong, Alison, 130 n. 2 Allison, Jonathan, 123 Auden, W. H., 36, 118, 119

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Beardsley, Aubrey, 24, 67 “Blood and the Moon,” 96; Beardsley, Mabel, 67 and the Blueshirts, 102; and Beckett, Samuel, 122 Purgatory, 112–13; see also Berkeley, George, 96, 97, 122 aristocracy and eugenics Blackmur, R. P., 119 Chapman, Wayne K., 125, 130 n. 2 Blake, William, 6, 8, 12, 17–18, 25, Chaudhry, Yug Mohit, 125 62, 120 Childs, Donald J., 132 n. 13 Blavatsky, Madame Helena Christ, 71, 77, 78, 94 Petrovna, 5, 18 Civil War, 64, 78–79, 81, 85, 88 Bloom, Harold, 120 Clark, David R., 121, 130 n. 2, Blueshirts, 102–03, 105, 107, 122 131 n. 4 Bohlmann, Otto, 132 n. 14 Clark, Rosalind E., 131 n. 4 Bornstein, George, 120, 125, 130 n. 2, class politics, see aristocracy 131 n. 4 Coole Park, see Gregory, Lady Augusta Bradford, Curtis, 120 Craig, Cairns, 123 Brannen, Anne, 130 n. 2 Craig, Gordon, 46, 122 Bridge, Ursula, 131 n. 7 Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, 122, 123, Bridges, Robert, 131 n. 7 124, 125 Brooks, Cleanth, 119 Cunard, Lady Emerald, 72 Brown, Terence, 117 Curtis, Jared, 130 n. 2 Browning, Robert, 30 Buddhism or Buddha, 5, 69, 70 Dante Alighieri, 67 Burke, Edmund, 85, 96, 122 Darwin, Charles, 1 Davis, Thomas, 5, 10, 11, 21 Cabala or Cabalism, 18, 43, 69 de Man, Paul, 125 Casement, Roger, 105 de Valera, Eamon, 101–02, 107, 122 Castiglione, Baldassare, 60 Deane, Seamus, 123 Catholics or Catholicism, Protestants Descartes, Rene´,70 or Protestantism (or the Dickinson, Mabel, 55, 75 Anglo-Irish): and Yeats’s family Digges, Dudley, 40 background, 4; and his aversion Diggory, Terence, 125 to orthodox religious institutions, Domville, Eric, 131 n. 6 5; his attitudes shaped by Lady Donoghue, Denis, 131 n. 3 Gregory and the hostile Dublin Dowson, Ernest, 24 reception of his early plays, 38–39; and The Green Helmet, 55; Easter Rising: breaks out, 63–64, 65; and the “Introductory Rhymes” includes Maud Gonne’s husband for Responsibilities, 59–60; and among its executed leaders, 64, “September 1913,” 60; and the 65; its impact on Yeats’s work, 66, Gore-Booth sisters, 74–75; and 67, 71; influences his attitude the Free State’s treatment of about World War I, 68; and The Protestants, 79–80; and “The Dreaming of the Bones, 71; and Tower,” 85; and “Among School Michael Robartes and the Dancer, Children,” 90–91; and Yeats’s 73, 82; discussed by interest in Swift, 93–94; and T. R. Henn, 119; see also “Easter,

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1916” and “On a Political Jane” poems, 99; and the Prisoner” Blueshirts, 102, 103; discussed by Eliot, T. S.: describes Yeats as Elizabeth Cullingford, 124 adumbrating Joyce, 48; praises In Freud, Sigmund or Freudian theory, the Seven Woods, 49, 59; his 26, 32, 81 modernist conception of the self Frieling, Barbara J., 130 n. 3 compared to Yeats’s, 54; praises Frye, Northrop, 120 the “Introductory Rhymes” to Responsibilities, 59; attends gender or sex or the body: and Maud performance of At the Hawk’s Gonne and The Countess Well, 72; his modernism Cathleen, 13–16; and Olivia compared to Yeats’s, 80, 81, 88, Shakespear, Maud Gonne, The 123; influences the New Secret Rose, and The Wind Among Critics, 120 the Reeds, 23–35; Yeats idealizes Ellis, Edwin, 18 revised feminine archetype in On Ellmann, Richard, 117, 119 Baile’s Strand and “The Old Age Emmet, Robert, 26, 60 of Queen Maeve,” 36–37; Yeats’s Empedocles, 121 middle work becomes more Engelberg, Edward, 121 “masculine,” 41, 52; and Cathleen eugenics, 29, 45, 101, 103, 104, 105, ni Houlihan 41, 42; and On Baile’s 110–11, 112–13, 128 n. 6, Strand and The King’s Threshold, 132 n. 13 42–45; and “In the Seven Woods,” 48; and “The Old Age of Queen fascism, see Blueshirts Maeve,” 48; and “Adam’s Curse,” Fay, Frank and Fay, Willie, 40, 49; and “Old Memory,” “Never 46, 47 give all the Heart,” and “O do not Finneran, Richard J., 115, 116, Love Too Long,” 51–52; and The 118, 125, 131 n. 4, 131 n. 4, Green Helmet, 55; and the 131 n. 7 “Introductory Rhymes” to Fitzgerald, Edward, 60 Responsibilities, 59–60; and “The FitzGerald, Mary, 130 n. 2, 131 n. 4 Phases of the Moon,” 69–70; Flannery, James W., 121–22 Yeats’s censuring of Fleming, Deborah, 123, 132 n. 23 “opinionated” women and “On a Fletcher, Ian, 120 Political Prisoner,” “Michael Foster, R. F., 117 Robartes and the Dancer,” Frayne, John P., 131 n. 4 “Solomon and the Witch,” and Frazier, Adrian, 122 “A Prayer for My Daughter,” Free State: established, 64; Yeats 75–77; his opposition to the Free supports it during the Civil War, State’s sexual Puritanism, 80; and but later questions its tendency to “Sailing to Byzantium” and make Catholic doctrine into law, “The Tower,” 83; and “Leda and 78–80; and “The Tower,” 85; and the Swan” and “Among School “Leda and the Swan,” 89; passes Children,” 89–91; and “A censorship bill, 93; and Yeats’s Man Young and Old,” 91–92; and views on Swift, 94; and the “Crazy The Winding Stair and Other

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Poems, 94; and the Crazy Jane 124; her correspondence with poems and “In Memory of Eva Yeats, 131 n. 7; mentioned, 37, Gore-Booth and Con 58, 66 Markievicz,” 99–100; and Yeats’s Gore-Booth, Eva, 74–75, 100 late infatuations, Gould, Warwick, 130 n. 1, 130 n. 3, 105–06; and “Supernatural 131 n. 6 Songs,” 107; discussed by Yeats’s Grattan, Henry, 85 critics, 123–24; see also eugenics Gregory, Lady Augusta: helps found Golden Dawn, 18–19, 37, 40, 43, 51, the Irish National Theatre and 64, 65, 97, 121 has lasting impact on Yeats’s Goldsmith, Oliver, 96, 122 politics, 37–38; supports him Gonne, Iseult, 34, 55, 64, 67, 68, 71, during controversy over Synge’s 75, 105 In the Shadow of the Glen, 40; Gonne, Maud: Yeats’s earliest helps direct National Theatre responses to, 12–17; and “The Society, 40, 79; co-authors Rose,” 19; his fixation with her Cathleen ni Houlihan, 41–42; and prevents him from pursuing “In the Seven Woods,” 47, 48; and other women, 24; and his liaison the Lane pictures controversy, 60; with Olivia Shakespear, 25, 26; and “To a Friend whose Work and The Wind Among the Reeds, has come to Nothing,” 61; and 31, 33; she confesses her affair “Friends,” 62; and her son’s death, with Millevoye, 33–35; her 68; as an emblem of Anglo-Irish marriage’s effect on him, 36–37, traditions, 75; her death and 39, 41, 51, 52, 54; her responses the downfall of Coole Park, to his theatrical work, 38, 40, 61; 93, 100–01, 105, 111; her diaries, plays title role in Cathleen ni autobiographies, and Houlihan, 41; and The King’s correspondence, 118, 131 n. 7; Threshold, 42, 44, 46; after her discussed by Yeats’s marriage falls apart, she and Yeats critics, 122, 124 resume their spiritual union and Gregory, Major Robert, 68, 93 conduct a brief sexual affair, 55; Grossman, Allen R., 124 and “Friends,” 62; Yeats proposes gyres (or other references to historical after MacBride’s death, 64; and cycles): and George Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole, 68; and automatic writing, 71; and The Only Jealousy of Emer, 71; and Calvary, 71; and “The Second Yeats’s attraction to less Coming,” 77–78; and the impact uncontrollable women, 75; sides of A Vision on The Tower, 81; and with anti-Treaty forces during the Yeats’s conception of Byzantium, Civil War, 79; and “The Tower,” 82; and “I see Phantoms of 84; and “Among School Hatred …,” 87; and “Nineteen Children,” 90; and “A Man Young Hundred and Nineteen,” 88; and and Old,” 91; and Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan,” 89; and eugenical views, 104; as author of “Among School Children,” 91; A Servant of the Queen, 118; and The Resurrection, 94; and The discussed by Deirdre Toomey, Winding Stair and Other Poems,

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94; and “Blood and the Moon,” Kenner, Hugh, 124 96; and “The Gyres,” 107, 108; Kermode, Frank, 120 and “Lapis Lazuli,” 108 Kiberd, Declan, 123 Kinahan, Frank, 125 Hall, James, 119 Kline, Gloria C., 123 Harper, George Mills, 118, 121, Krans, Horatio Sheafe, 118 130 n. 3 Harper, Margaret Mills, 130 n. 3 Land War, 38 Harris, Daniel A., 132 n. 18 Lane, Sir Hugh, 60, 61 Harwood, John, 117 Leavis, F. R., 119 Heald, Edith Shackleton, 106 Logue, Cardinal Michael, 39 Henn, T. R., 119 Loizeaux, Elizabeth Bergmann, 125 Heraclitus, 121, 129 n. 12 Longenbach, James, 132 n. 13 Hinduism, 5, 69, 107 history, see gyres MacBride, Major John, 37, 39, 42, 55, Hitler, Adolf, 101, 108 64, 73 Holdeman, David, 125, 130 n. 2 MacDonagh, Thomas, 73 Holdsworth, Carolyn, 130 n. 2 Macleod, Fiona, see Sharp, William Hone, Joseph, 117 MacNeice, Louis, 118–19 Horniman, Annie, 40, 47, 122 MacSwiney, Terence, 44 Hough, Graham, 120 Maddox, Brenda, 117 Howes, Marjorie, 124 Maeterlinck, Maurice, 46, 122 Hu¨gel, Friedrich, Baron von, 98 Mahaffey, Vicki, 124 Hyde, Douglas, 40 Mangan, James, 10, 11, 19 Mannin, Ethel 106 Ibsen, Henrik, 46 Marchaterre, Madeleine, 131 n. 4 illnesses, 92–93, 94, 104–05, 114 Marcus, Phillip L., 121, 125, 130 n. 2, Irish Civil War, see Civil War 130 n. 3 Irish Free State, see Free State Markievicz, Constance (ne´e Irish War of Independence, see War of Gore-Booth), 73, 74–75, 100 Independence Martinich, Robert A., 130 n. 3 Ito, Michio, 72 Martyn, Edward, 37, 39, 40 masks or “the mask”: and modernist Jeffares, A. Norman, 115, 116, 117, conceptions of the self, 53–54, 81; 118, 131 n. 7 and The Green Helmet, 55; and Jochum, K. P. S., 115, 118 The Green Helmet and Other Johnson, Colton, 131 n. 4 Poems, 56–57; and Johnson, Lionel, 22, 23, 24, 25 Responsibilities, 59, 60, 61; and Joyce, James, 16, 32, 48, 54, 80, 81, 124 “Ego Dominus Tuus,” 67; and Jung, Carl, 121 “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory,” 68; and “The Phases of Keane, Patrick J., 133 n. 24 the Moon,” 69; and At the Hawk’s Kearney, Richard, 123 Well, 73; and “Sailing to Keats, John, 30, 31, 67, 91, 109 Byzantium,” 82; and “Among Kelly, John, 131 n. 5, 131 n. 6 School Children,” 90; and New

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Poems, 107; and “Lapis Lazuli,” O’Shea, Katharine, 17 108; and “Under Ben Bulben,” Olney, James, 121 110; Yeats’s thinking influenced Oppel, Frances Nesbitt, 132 n. 14 by Wilde and Nietzsche, Order of the Golden Dawn, see Golden 128 n. 15; mentioned, 76 Dawn Mathers, MacGregor, 18 Orr, Leonard, 133 n. 28 Matthews, Steven, 125 Mays, J. C. C., 130 n. 2 Parkinson, Thomas, 119–20, 130 n. 2 McCormack, W. J., 123 Parmenides, 121 McHugh, Roger, 131 n. 7 Parnell, Charles Stewart, 6, 17, 34, 60, Melchiori, Giorgio, 125 105, 107 Michelangelo Buonarroti, 110 Parrish, Stephen, 130 n. 2 Mikhail, E. H., 118 Pater, Walter, 120 Mill, John Stuart, 1 Pearse, Patrick, 73 Miller, Liam, 122 Pethica, James, 124, 130 n. 2, 131 n. 8 Millevoye, Lucien, 13, 34, 36 phases of the moon, see afterlife Mitchel, John, 110 Phillips, Catherine, 130 n. 2 modernism or modern poetry: 49, Picasso, Pablo, 80, 81 53–54, 58, 80–81, 88, 120, 123, Pierce, David, 118, 125, 126 132 n. 13 Pinter, Harold, 122 Moore, George, 118 Plato, 70, 83, 84, 90, 121 Moore, T. Sturge, 131 n. 7 Plotinus, 84 Morris, William, 6, 12, 25, 30, 120, 122 Poe, Edgar Allan, 27 Murphy, Daniel J., 131 n. 8 Pollexfen, William, 4, 60 Murphy, William M., 117, 118 Pound, Ezra: his modernist conception Mussolini, Benito, 101, 102, 108 of the self compared to Yeats’s, 54; reviews Responsibilities, 58; Nathan, Leonard, 121 introduces Yeats to Noh drama, Nietzsche, Friedrich, 54, 69, 128 n. 15, 72; attends performance of At the 132 n. 14 Hawk’s Well, 72; his modernism Noh drama, 47, 72–73, 122 compared to Yeats’s, 81, 88, 123; North, Michael, 123 the Yeatses join him in Rapallo, Northern Ireland, 41, 64, 78, 79, 123 93; mentioned, 58, 59 Pre-Raphaelites, 6, 30 O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 122, 123 Protestants or Protestantism: see O’Casey, Sean, 80, 118 Catholics or Catholicism, O’Connor, Frank, 118 Protestants or Protestantism O’Donnell, Frank Hugh, 39 Purohit Swami, Shri, 130 n. 22 O’Donnell, William H., 130 n. 2, Putzel, Steven, 124 131 n. 4 Pythagoras, 70, 121 O’Duffy, General Eoin, 102, 107 O’Hara, Daniel T., 125 Quinn, Maire, 40 O’Higgins, Kevin, 92, 96, 102 O’Leary, John, 5–6, 10, 60, 122 Raine, Kathleen, 132 n. 16 O’Shea, Edward, 115 Ramazani, Jahan, 123

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Ransom, John Crowe, 119 Schoenberg, Arnold, 80 reception: of The Wanderings of Oisin Schuchard, Ronald, 131 n. 6 and Other Poems, 12; of The Senate, Yeats’s service in the, 79–80, Countess Kathleen and Various 89, 93 Legends and Lyrics, 22–23; of The sex, see gender Secret Rose and The Wind Among Shakespear, Olivia: her sexual affair the Reeds, 33; hostile reactions to with Yeats, 25, 26, 34; and “The the Irish Literary Theatre, 38, Binding of the Hair,” 27; and 40–41; of Responsibilities and The Wind Among the Reeds, 31, Other Poems, 58–59; of Later 32–33; resumes friendship with Poems, 80; of The Tower,92 Yeats, 58; and “Friends,” 62; Yeats reincarnation, see afterlife meets George through revisions: of The Wanderings of Oisin Shakespear’s social circle, 63–64, and Other Poems,7;ofThe 65; mentioned, 55 Countess Cathleen, 15–16; of The Shakespeare, William, 108 Wind Among the Reeds, 30; of The Sharp, William, 23 King’s Threshold, 44; of Yeats’s Shaw, George Bernard, 23, 46 oeuvre between 1904 and 1908, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 6, 8, 31, 109, 120 51–52; of The Wild Swans at Sidnell, Michael J., 125, 130 n. 2, Coole, 68; of “A Man Young and 130 n. 3 Old,” 92; of “Three Songs to the Siegel, Sandra F., 130 n. 2 Same Tune,” 103; of New Poems Smithers, Leonard, 24 and Last Poems and Two Plays Smythe, Colin, 131 n. 8 into Last Poems & Plays, 109; as Sophocles, 92 interpreted by Yeats’s editors Spenser, Edmund, 45, 91 and critics, 115–17, 120, 121, 125 Sprayberry, Sandra L., 130 n. 3 Rhymers Club, 24 Stalin, Joseph, 101 Rhys, Ernest, 23 Stallworthy, Jon, 120 Ricoeur, Paul, 125 Stanfield, Paul Scott, 122 Rohan, Virginia Bartholome, 130 n. 2 Stead, C. K., 132 n. 13 Romanticism, 6, 8, 12, 20–21, 49, Stein, Gertrude, 80 53–54, 81, 120 Steinach operation, 105, 106 Rosicrucianism, 18 Steinmann, Martin, 119 Rossetti, Christina, 12 Swift, Jonathan, 93–94, 96, 122 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 25, 30, 120 symbols or symbolism: compared to Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 53 magical spells, 5, 8, 18–19; Ruddock, Margot, 105–06, 111, used more sparingly in Yeats’s 131 n. 7 middle works, 46, 47, 48, 52; Ruskin, John, 6, 120 compared to masks, 53, 82; Russell, George, 5, 23 Yeats’s views summed up in “The Russian Revolution, 77, 78 Symbolism of Poetry,” 128 n. 12; mentioned, 61 Saddlemyer, Ann, 117, 131 n. 7 Symons, Arthur, 24, 33, 37 Said, Edward W., 123 Synge, John Millington, 40–41, 42, 44, Savoy magazine, 24–25, 26, 27, 30, 89 54–55, 60, 131 n. 7

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Tate, Allen, 119, 120 Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet (“Lolly”), 58, Taylor, Richard, 122 66, 81, 94, 109 Theosophy, 5, 8, 11, 18, 69 Yeats, Georgie (“George,” ne´e Hyde Thoor Ballylee, 71, 78, 86, 88, 93, 96 Lees): marries Yeats and begins Thoreau, Henry David, 21 experiments with automatic Thuente, Mary Helen, 125 writing, 65; and “Shepherd and Tone, Theobald Wolfe, 26, 60 Goatherd,” 68; and “The Phases Toomey, Deirdre, 117, 124, 131 n. 6 of the Moon,” 69; and “The Torchiana, Donald T., 122 Double Vision of Michael Tynan, Katharine, 14 Robartes,” 70; George’s automatic writing shifts to historical Unterecker, John, 124 matters, 71; and The Only Jealousy of Emer, 71; and Yeats’s Vendler, Helen, 121 attraction to women less uncontrollable than Gonne, 75; Wade, Allan, 115, 118 and “The Second Coming,” 78; is War of Independence, 44, 64, 71, 73, nearly shot during the Civil War, 78, 81, 88 79; and “The Tower,” 84; goes to Watson, G. J., 132 n. 22 Rapallo with Yeats, 93; returns Wellesley, Dorothy, 106, 108, 131 n. 7 with Yeats from Rapallo to Whitaker, Thomas R., 121 Dublin, 93; drifts apart from White, Anna MacBride, 131 n. 7 Yeats after the automatic writing Wilde, Oscar, 12, 24, 54, 124, 128 n. 15 ceases, 105–06; accompanies Wilson, Edmund, 120 Yeats to Cap Martin, 113; has Wilson, F. A. C., 121 him buried in France, 114; Winnett, Steven, 130 n. 2 mentioned, 68, 82 Winters, Yvor, 119 Yeats, Jack Butler, 3 Witemeyer, Hugh, 131 n. 4 Yeats, John Butler, 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 14 Woolf, Virginia, 80, 81, 92 Yeats, Michael Butler, 71 Wordsworth, William, 12, 21, 53 Yeats, Susan Mary (ne´e Pollexfen), 2, 4, World War I: suspends 14, 26, 37, 124 implementation of Irish Home Yeats, William Butler Rule, 63; Yeats’s ambivalence single poems or poetic sequences: about, 68; and “The Second “Adam’s Curse,” 48, 49–50, 51 Coming,” 77, 78, 81; and “All Souls’ Night,” 81, 92 modernism, 81; and “Nineteen “All Things can tempt Me,” 57 Hundred and Nineteen,” 88; “Among School and “Lapis Lazuli,” 108; Children,” 89–91, 92 mentioned, 64 “Ancestral Houses,” 85–86, 124 Worth, Katharine, 122 “Another Song of a Fool,” 70 “Arrow, The,” 48 Yeats, Anne Butler, 71, 79 “At Galway Races,” 57 Yeats: An Annual of Critical and “Baile and Aillinn,” 48 Textual Studies, 115, 117, 118, 126 “Beggar to Beggar cried,” 62 Yeats Annual, 117, 126 “Black Tower, The,” 111, 114

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“Blood and the Moon,” 96 “Gyres, The,” 107, 108, 109 “Brown Penny,” 57 “Happy Townland, The,” 48 “Byzantium,” 68, 94, 96, 97–98, 99 “He bids his Beloved be at “Cap and Bells, The,” 32 Peace,” 31 “Circus Animals’ Desertion, The,” “He gives his Beloved certain 111, 112 Rhymes,” 27, 32 “Closing Rhyme” [“While I, “He mourns for the Change that from that reed-throated has come upon Him and his whisperer”], 59, 60, 63 Beloved, and longs for the End “Coat, A,” 63 of the World,” 32 “Cold Heaven, The,” 62 “He tells of the Perfect “Colonus’ Praise,” 129 n. 9 Beauty,” 33 “Coole and Ballylee, 1931,” “He wishes for the Cloths of 100–01 Heaven,” 33 “Coole Park, 1929,” 100 “He wishes his Beloved were “Crazed Girl, A,” 106 Dead,” 29–30, 32 “Crazy Jane and Jack the “His Dream,” 56 Journeyman,” 99 “Hosting of the Sidhe, The,” 30 “Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at “Hour before Dawn, The,” 62 the Dancers,” 99–100 “Human Dignity,” 91 “Crazy Jane Talks with the “I see Phantoms of Hatred and of Bishop,” 99 the Heart’s Fullness and of the “Cuchulain Comforted,” 111 Coming Emptiness,” 87, 89 “Cuchulain’s Fight with the “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth Sea,” 21 and Con Markievicz,” 100 “Curse of Cromwell, The,” 105 “In Memory of Major Robert “Dialogue of Self and Soul, A,” Gregory,” 68, 85 94–96, 98, 99, 101 “In the Seven Woods,” 47–48, “Dolls, The,” 62–63 49, 85 “Double Vision of Michael “Indian to his Love, The,” 9 Robartes, The,” 70, 76 “Indian upon God, The,” 9 “Easter, 1916,” 73–74, 75, 77 “Into the Twilight,” 32 “Ego Dominus Tuus,” 67 “Introductory Rhymes” “Everlasting Voices, The,” 31 [“Pardon, old fathers, if you “Fascination of What’s Difficult, still remain”], 59–60 The,” 56, 59 “Irish Airman foresees his Death, “Fergus and the Druid,” 21 An,” 68 “Fiddler of Dooney, The,” 33 “Lake Isle of Innisfree, The,” “First Love,” 91 21–22, 77 “Fisherman, The,” 67 “Lapis Lazuli,” 108–09, 113 “Folly of being Comforted, The,” “Leaders of the Crowd, The,” 75 48, 49 “Leda and the Swan,” 81, “Friends,” 62, 63 89–90, 125 “From ‘Oedipus at Colonus,’” 92 “Lines written in Dejection,” “Grey Rock, The,” 60, 128 n. 20 67–68

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Yeats, William Butler (cont.) “Prayer for my Daughter, “Living Beauty, The,” 68 A,” 76–77, 82 “Lover mourns for the Loss of “Presences,” 68 Love, The,” 31 “Realists, The,” 62 “Madness of King Goll, The,” “Red Hanrahan’s Song about 9–11, 12, 15 Ireland,” 48 “Magi, The,” 62 “Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and “Man and the Echo,” 106, 111–12 Aillinn,” 107 “Man Young and Old, A,” 89, “Ribh denounces Patrick,” 107 91–92, 94 “Road at My Door, The,” 87 “Mask, The,” 56, 57 “Rose of Battle, The,” 19 “Meditations in Time of Civil “Rose of Peace, The,” 19 War,” 85–88, 89, 91, 92, 96 “Rose of the World, The,” 19, 21 “Memory,” 68 “Rose Tree, The,” 73 “Men improve with the “Running to Paradise,” 62 Years,” 67–68 “Sad Shepherd, The,” 9 “Mermaid, The,” 91 “Sailing to Byzantium,” 81, “Meru,” 107 82–83, 90, 91, 92, 94, 97, 109 “Michael Robartes and the “Saint and the Hunchback, Dancer,” 76, 77 The,” 70 “Municipal Gallery Re-visited, “Second Coming, The,” 71, The” 107 77–78, 81 “My Descendants,” 86 “Secret Rose, The,” 35, 46 “My House,” 86 “September 1913,” 60–61, 125 “My Table,” 86, 90 “Shepherd and Goatherd,” “Never give all the 68–69 Heart,” 51–52, 54 “Sixteen Dead Men,” 73 “Nineteen Hundred and “Solomon and the Witch,” 76 Nineteen,” 88–89, 91, 92, 95 “Song, A,” 68 “No Second Troy,” 59 “Song from ‘The Player Queen,’ “O do not Love Too Long,” A,” 62 51–52, 54 “Song of the Happy Shepherd, “Old Age of Queen Maeve, The,” The,” 7–9, 10, 12, 20, 113 36, 48, 52 “Song of Wandering Aengus, “Old Memory,” 51–52 The,” 31 “On a Political Prisoner,” “Spur, The,” 106, 107 74–75, 77 “Stare’s Nest by My Window, “On being asked for a War The,” 87 Poem,” 68 “Statues, The,” 111 “On Woman,” 75 “Stolen Child, The,” 11–12, 30 “Parnell’s Funeral,” 107 “Supernatural Songs,” 107 “Paudeen,” 61, 63, 111 “Sweet Dancer,” 106 “Phases of the Moon, “These are the Clouds,” 57, 85 The,” 69–70, 103 “Three Beggars, The,” 61, 62 “Poet to His Beloved, A,” 32 “Three Hermits, The,” 61

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“Three Marching Songs,” see plays: “Three Songs to the Same At the Hawk’s Well, 71–73, 84, 92, Tune” 129 n. 3 “Three Songs to the Same Tune,” Calvary, 71, 78 103, 104, 106 Cat and the Moon, The,94 “To a Child dancing in the Cathleen ni Houlihan, 41–42, 43, Wind,” 62 111, 124 “To a Friend whose Work has Countess Cathleen, The, 15–16, come to Nothing,” 61 37, 38, 39, 40, 54, 124 “To a Wealthy Man who Death of Cuchulain, The, 109, 113, promised a second 129 n. 3 Subscription to the Dublin Deirdre, 51, 121 Municipal Gallery if it were Dreaming of the Bones, The, 71, proved the People wanted 73, 113, 121 Pictures,” 60 Fighting the Waves,94 “To a Young Beauty,” 68 Full Moon in March, A, 106 “To a Young Girl,” 68 Green Helmet, The, 54–55, “To Dorothy Wellesley,” 106 129 n. 3 “To Ireland in the Coming Hour-Glass, The, 42, 47 Times,” 20–21 King of the Great Clock Tower, “To the Rose upon the Rood of The, 106 Time,” 19, 20, 21, 22, 26 King’s Threshold, The, 42, 44–45, “Tower, The,” 83–85, 92, 96 46, 47, 51, 103, 110 “Two Kings, The,” 128 n. 20 Land of Heart’s Desire, “Two Songs of a Fool,” 70 The, 22–23 “Two Years Later,” 62 On Baile’s Strand, 36, 42–44, 46, “Under Ben Bulben,” 109–111 47, 48, 51, 52, 55, 71, 129 n. 3 “Upon a Dying Lady,” 67 Only Jealousy of Emer, The, 71, 72, “Upon a House shaken by the 94, 129 n. 3 Land Agitation,” 57 Pot of Broth, The,42 “Vacillation,” 96, 98–99, 112 Purgatory, 68, 99, 109, 111, “Valley of the Black Pig, 112–13, 121, 124 The,” 32 Resurrection, The,94 “Wanderings of Oisin, The,” 7, Words upon the Window-Pane, 9–10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 83 The, 93–94, 99, 113, 121 “When You are Old,” 125 volumes of poems and/or plays: “Why should not Old Men be Cat and the Moon and Certain Mad?,” 104 Poems, The, 129 n. 9 “Wild Old Wicked Man, Countess Kathleen and Various The,” 106 Legends and Lyrics, The, 15, “Wild Swans at Coole, The,” 67 19, 22 “Woman Young and Old, A,” “Crossways,” 7–12 94, 99 Four Plays for Dancers, 71–73 “Words for Music Perhaps,” 99 Full Moon in March, A, 106–07, “Words,” 56 130 n. 21

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Yeats, William Butler (cont.) Poems (1895), 7, 19, 22, 23, 51, 80 Green Helmet and Other Poems, Poems, 1899–1905,51 The, 56–58, 59 other works (e.g., fiction, In the Seven Woods, 47–50, 51–52, autobiographical and critical 54, 58, 59 writings, folklore collections, King of the Great Clock Tower, occult treatises): Commentaries and Poems, The, “Adoration of the Magi, 106–07 The,” 27 Last Poems & Plays (1940), “Binding of the Hair, The,” 109 26–27, 32, 106 Last Poems and Two Plays (1939), Celtic Twilight, The,23 107, 109–113 “Certain Noble Plays of Michael Robartes and the Dancer, Japan,” 72 71, 73–78, 80, 81 “Death of Synge, The,” 53 New Poems, 107–09 Discoveries, 52–53 October Blast, 129 n. 9 “Estrangement,” 53 “Parnell’s Funeral and Other Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Poems,” 129 n. 21 Peasantry,11 Responsibilities and Other Poems, Ideas of Good and Evil, 128 n. 12 58–63, 64, 66–67, 107, Irish Fairy Tales,11 130 n. 20 John Sherman, 14, 15 “Rose, The,” 19–22, 48, 59 “Magic,” 104, 128 n. 12 Seven Poems and a Fragment, On the Boiler, 103–04, 105, 106, 129 n. 9 109, 111, 112, 113 Tower, The, 81–92, 94, 95, 99, 106, Per Amica Silentia Lunae,53 124, 125 Reveries over Childhood and Wanderings of Oisin and Other Youth, 58, 59, 63, 64 Poems, The,7,9,12 “Rosa Alchemica,” 27–29, 31, 33, Wheels and Butterflies,94 44, 56, 97, 98, 103, 110 Wild Swans at Coole, Secret Rose, The, 23, 25, 26–29, 30, The, 66–70, 75 33, 58, 124 Wind Among the Reeds, The, 23, Stories of Red Hanrahan,27 24, 25, 26, 27, 29–33, 35, 47, “Symbolism of Poetry, The,” 48, 58, 59, 80, 124 128 n. 12 Winding Stair and Other Poems, “Tables of the Law, The,” 27 The (1933), 94–101, 105, 106 Ten Principal Upanishads, The, Winding Stair, The (1929), 94 130 n. 22 Words for Music Perhaps and Trembling of the Veil, The, 80, Other Poems,94 129 n. 2 collected editions: Vision, A, 65, 69, 78, 81, 82, 88, Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, The 89, 92, 94, 103, 119, 121, (1933), 116 129 n. 2, 132 n. 16; see also Collected Works in Verse and afterlife Prose, 51, 52 Yellow Book, 24, 25 Later Poems, 80, 92 Young, David, 124