This is a short, primarily bibliographical study of the work of Yeats, who is arguably the greatest Irish poet whose work
we have at present. He was a Nobel Laureate in
Literature, a supporter of the cause of native Irish literature, poetry and theatre, and of Irish freedom from the centuries of English oppression. The book deals with Yeats' dreamy and visionary qualities, as well as his involvement with the occult and
with the mythology and mythos of the Celtic revival--the pagan past brought forth to fertilize the present and create the future. There is a brief biography of the poet, emphasizing his childhood and origins, and their influence on his later work. There is a comparison and contrast with his contemporaries, friends and fellow writers, and a
criticism of the criticisms of Yeats by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, as well as other, lesser, critics. There is an addendum to this book, as the first part of it was written and published in nineteen fifty-four (1954), with this later expansion published in the nineteen sixties. There is also an extensive list of Yeats's works at the end of this section.