Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Lyric Form in Yeats's Poetry: Prophecy, Love, and Revolution | |
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| Antechamber and Afterlife: Byzantium and the Delphic Oracle | |
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| The Puzzle of Sequence: Two Political Poems | |
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| "Magical" Techniques in the Early Poems | |
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| Tales, Feelings, Farewells: Three Stages of the Yeatsian Ballad | |
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| Troubling the Tradition: Yeats at Sonnets | |
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| The Nationalist Measure: Trimeter-Quatrain Poems | |
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| Marches and the Examination of Conscience: The Tetrameter Line | |
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| The Medium of Instruction: Doctrine in Blank Verse | |
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| The Renaissance Aura: Ottava Rima Poems | |
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| The Spacious Lyric: Long Stanzas, Irregular Lines | |
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| Primitivism and the Grotesque: "Supernatural Songs" | |
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| Rare Forms | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
