Introduction 1
Chapter One Changes in Yeats's Poetics 21
Ⅰ.Symbolism as a Tentative Means 25
Ⅱ.Narrative Possibilities in lrish Myth and Folklore 32
Ⅲ.Artist as Priest 38
Ⅳ.Integrity ofArt 45
Ⅴ.“Personal Utterance” 51
Ⅵ.Self-dramatization 56
Chapter Two Dramatic Narrative and Dramatized Narrator 63
Ⅰ.Dramatic Narrative:AYeatsian Motive 64
Ⅱ.Dramatized Narrator 77
Ⅲ.Dramatic in What Sense？ 97
Ⅳ.Yeats's Concept ofthe Reader 102
Chapter Three The Intertwining Voices 108
Ⅰ.The Interplay ofVoices 109
Ⅱ.A New Rhetoric 121
Ⅲ.Yeats's Sense ofthe Other 129
Ⅳ.The Emblematic Imagery 137
Chapter Four Arrangement ofTime and Chronotope 144
Ⅰ.The Eschatology 147
Ⅱ.The HistoricalInversion 151
Ⅲ.The Square Turns Carnivalesque 158
Conclusion 165
Bibliography 171
Acknowledgements 177
后记 178