Publisher's Synopsis
In his inaugural lecture, Professor Muldoon examines in detail the first stanza of `All Souls' Night' by W. B. Yeats, written in Oxford in 1920, and considers the extent to which it might be a free-standing construct. He concludes that the poem is not so much an `Epilogue to A Vision', as Yeats describes it in his epigraph, but an epilogue to a series of poems by Yeats's near namesake, Keats, including his `To Autumn', published one hundred years earlier in 1820.
