Publisher's Synopsis
Addressing the topic of Yeats' "antinomies", this book sees their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance, and examines the notion of "measure". It offers new scholarship as a means of understanding the precise relationship this inheritance implies with phenomena such as freemasonry, Celticism and Orientalism, and looks in detail at the Blakean esoteric language of "contraries" and "outline" which provided Yeats with the vocabulary of self-understanding.;The uesfulness of many insights of contemporary theory is assumed, but the broad thrust is towards a new historical understanding of Yeats and of his relevance to contemporary literature.
