Chapter 1 Early Yeats Childhood Early religious and political views "Crossways" Maud Gonne, gender, and The Countess Cathleen "The Rose" The Secret Rose and The Wind Among the Reeds The fading of the Rose
Chapter 2 Middle Yeats The Irish National Theatre Early plays: Cathleen ni Houlihan, On Baile's Strand, and The King's Threshold Drama's influence on Yeats's verse style: In the Seven Woods Revisions, masks, and The Green Helmet and Other Poems Responsibilities Ireland's "Troubles"
Chapter 3 Late Yeats Lunar visions: The Wild Swans at Coole Four Plays for Dancers and Michael Robartes and the Dancer The Tower The Winding Stair and Other Poems Blueshirts, eugenics, "lust and rage": Yeats's final works Death
