The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats

This book follows the usual format for Cambridge Companions; that is, a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field designed to provide an advanced introduction for the student together with an up‐to‐date survey and guide to recent criticism. Topics chosen for discussion tend to be general in nature, and here it is no different: Yeats and Romanticism, and Victorianism, and Modernism, and Drama, and Later Poetry, and Politics, and Gender, and the Occult, and the Postcolonial. The word “Companion”, which suggests authority and something closer to the comprehensiveness of a handbook or encyclopedia than to the inevitable...