Introduction Chapter One Changes in Yeats's Poetics Ⅰ.Symbolism as a Tentative Means Ⅱ.Narrative Possibilities in Myth Myth and Folklore Ⅲ.Artist as Priest Ⅳ.Integrity ofArt Ⅴ."Personal Utterance Ⅵ.Self-dramatization Chapter Two Dramatic Narrative and Dramatized Narrator Ⅰ.Dramatic Narrative: A Yeatsian Motive Ⅱ.Dramatized Narrator Ⅲ.Dramatic in What Sense? Ⅳ.Yeats's Concept of the Reader Chapter Three The Intertwining Voices Ⅰ.The Interplay of Voices Ⅱ.A New Rhetoric Ⅲ.Yeats's Sense of the Other Ⅳ.The Emblematic Imagery Chapter Four Arrangement of Time and Chronotope Ⅰ.The Escha'tology Ⅱ.The Historical Inversion Ⅲ.The Square Turns Carnivalesque Conclusion Bibliography Acknowledgements 后记