W.B. Yeats and the Craft of Verse

abstract Adam's Curse allusiveness Autobiographies beauty Beloved Ben Bulben bird bitter body Buddha Bulben cadence compound epithets conversation poem Cordelia courtly craft craftsman craftsmanship dance dialogue Dorothy Wellesley dramatic monologue dream early echo Ego Dominus Tuus eight-line stanza Essays and Introductions eternity experience expression eyes flame Hamlet heart Ibid idea idiom imagination Jon Stallworthy labor Lapis Lazuli last poems Lear lines Lover lyric Major Robert Gregory mask meaning meditation metrical mood moon movement nature Oriental ottava rima Pater pattern pauses periodic sentence persona Phidias phrase Plotinus poet poetic poetry Pythagoras recalls repetition reverie rhyme scheme rhythm rhythmic Rose run-on Sailing to Byzantium sculpture sense sensuous Song soul speaker speech spiritual stanzaic Statues stressed style suggestive supernatural syllables Symbolist symbols theme things thought tone traditional Upanishads verse vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats William Morris Yeats's poem Yeatsian York