Yeats's Poetic Codes

Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published widely on Irish drama and on Shakespeare. His books include Bernard Shaw: A Critical View (1984), Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination (1992), The Politics of Irish Drama (1999), and Shakespeare's Serial History Plays (2002). He was the founding Director of the Synge Summer School (1991 to 2000) and is currently Chair of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora research network. A Member of the Royal Irish Academy, he has held visiting professorships at the University of New South Wales and Dartmouth College, and has been an invited lecturer in over fifteen countries.

• Introduction ; 1. Dates ; 2. This and that, here and there ; 3. Dream ; 4. Place names ; 5. Beasts and birds ; 6. Tense and mood ; 7. Voices ; 8. Bitter/sweet ; Conclusion: ... but half... ; Bibliography ; Index of poems discussed ; General Index

... listens in to the poetry on the page, and enriches its import by acts of steady, sensitive attention to the poet's recurrent use of certain words and expressions.