Table of Contents

Section I Influence and Identity.-1.Introduction: “An Echo of Someone Else’s Music”.-2.Establishing Influence.-3.“A Provincial Like Myself”: Yeats, Wilde and the Politics of Identity.-Section II Mask and Image.-4.Metaphysics and Masks (1908–1917).-5.The Idea Incarnate: Mask and Image (1915–1917).-Section III Salomé : Symbolism, Dance and Theories of Being.-6.“Surface and Symbol”: Wilde’s Salomé, French Symbolism and Yeats (1891–1906).-7.Yeats’s Creative Use of Wilde’s Salomé in his Revisions of The Shadowy Waters, On Baile’s Strand and Deirdre .-8.“Drama as Personal as a Lyric”: The Centrality of Wilde’s Concepts of Dance, Desire and Image to Yeats’s Developing Aesthetic (1916–1921).-9.“There Must Be Severed Heads”: Yeats’s Final Transumption of Oscar Wilde (1923–1939).-10.Conclusion.

About the Author

Noreen Doody is a writer and former Senior Lecturer at the School of English, Dublin City University, Ireland. She studied at University College Dublin and at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. Her most recent publication is The Moon Spun Round: W.B. Yeats for Children (2016).