"A work of adventurous scholarship not for the fainthearted. UCD Press produces an elegant volume worthy of its subject..." Books Ireland May 2000 "Engaging and thoroughly original, this study provides compelling analysis of Yeats's poetry as situated between Edmund Burke's empirical and Immanuel Kant's formal aesthetics." Dr Sarah Fulford Studies 89: 355, 2000 "This book is likely to remain the standard work for many years to come." Selina Guiness Irish Times August 2000 "a compelling argument which aims at, and achieves, an intimate ... understanding of Yeats's poetic quest." Emilie Pine, Trinity College Irish Literary Supplement Spring 2002 "makes an important contribution to Yeats criticism ... the argument is made throughout with clarity and style." The Year's Work in English Studies 2002 "Though not an easy read, this book rewards the effort. In its emphasis on the poems themselves, it is also refreshingly different from much of the good recent work on Yeats, which has been feminist or cultural-materialist." CHOICE March 2001