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The Forty-two Chapters In This Handbook Bring Together Critics And Writers On Yeats's Texts And Their Contexts In Ways That Will Lead The Reader Through The Creative Vacillations Of Yeats's Career As Poet, Playwright, Public Figure, And Mystic. To The Sense Of Dialogue - The Antinomial Or Deliberately-divided Way Of Thinking That Yeats Relished And Encouraged - This Volume Adds The Sense Of A Living Dialogue In Tune Both With The History Of Criticism On Yeats And Also With Contemporary Critical And Ethical Debates, Not Shirking The Challenge Of His More Uncomfortable Political Positions Or Personal Life. It Provides One Basis From Which Future Yeats Scholarship Can Continue To Participate In The Fascination Of The Contributors Here In The Satisfying Difficulty Of This Great Writer. The Oxford Handbook Of Yeats Covers Every Era Of Yeats's Writing, From Early Toil To Practical And Esoteric Concerns, Among Friends, Family And Enemies, Offering The Reader Many Ways To Approach How He Was And Is Understood-- Provided By Publisher.