"O’hara takes a lifetime of reading Yeats as fertile ground from which he nourishes an appreciation of poetics as something richer with human experience than a mere academic theory can muster. O’hara writes with a poet’s passion for language. Here we have a bravura record of the kind of engagement with literary work that proves the life of the critic to be as vital a source of creative imagination as the artist whom he honors." —Alan Singer, Professor Emeritus of English, English Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Daniel T. O’Hara, long time review editor of Boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture (1984–2014) and currently contributing editor to symploke: a journal of theory in culture and advisory editor for American Book Review, is the author and editor/co-editor of fifteen books in critical theory and modernist literature, most recently the author of Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime: the Invisible Tribunal (Palgrave Pivots: 2015) and co-editor (with Donald E. Pease and Michelle Martin) of Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative: The William V. Spanos Reader (Northwestern University Press: 2015).

Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Dancer and Dance: Yeats’s Romantic Modernism and Critical Revisionism; 1. The Irony of Tradition in W.B. Yeats’s Autobiography: Dialectical Hermeneutics Beyond the New Criticism; 2. The Specialty of Self-Victimization: On Antithetical Revisionism; 3. Yeats in Theory: Blackmur, Bloom, De Man and Hartman; 4. The Divisions of Yeats Studies Continued; 5. Modernism’s Global Identity: On the Dogmatic Imagination in Yeats, Freud and Beyond; 6. Yeats with Lacan: Toward the Real Modernism; 7. The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions and Recent Lacanian Studies; 8. And All the Ceremonies to Come: Of High Modernism, Visionary Violence and Post-Marxism; Afterword: The Reader in Yeats; Bibliography; Index