An excellent introduction to Yeats as a poet...Smith frequently shows himself to be an exemplary reader of Yeats's poems and some of his commentaries are likely to become permanent reference points for future critics...There isn't, to my knowledge, another book on Yeats that one could so confidently refer students to as an introduction. -- Bernard Sharratt, University of Kent. An excellent introduction to Yeats as a poet...Smith frequently shows himself to be an exemplary reader of Yeats's poems and some of his commentaries are likely to become permanent reference points for future critics...There isn't, to my knowledge, another book on Yeats that one could so confidently refer students to as an introduction. -- Bernard Sharratt, University of Kent.