ABSTRACT
This work addresses Yeats's "antinomies", seeing their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and examining the notion of measure. It then explores how this relates to freemasonry, Celticism and Orientalism and looks at the Blakean esoteric language of contrariety and outline which provided Yeats with the vocabulary of self-understanding.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|14 pages
Introduction: Matter and Methodology
part One|69 pages
The Matrix
chapter 2|11 pages
Matrix and Mean
chapter 3|19 pages
The Happy Shell and the Sad Shell
chapter 4|13 pages
Husks, Wandering and the Nation
chapter 5|12 pages
Rose, Mirror and Hem
chapter 6|12 pages
Fin-De-Siècle Fenianism: The Wind Among the Reeds
part Two|73 pages
The Measure
chapter 7|27 pages
The Masks of Difference
chapter 8|24 pages
Framing Ireland
chapter 9|20 pages
Reflections on Yeatsian Occultism
part Three|35 pages
Cracked Masonry