Chapter 1 Introduction: “An Echo of Someone Else’s Music”

Chapter 2 Establishing Influence

Chapter 3 “A Provincial Like Myself”: Yeats, Wilde and the Politics of Identity

Chapter 4 Metaphysics and Masks (1908–1917)

Chapter 5 The Idea Incarnate: Mask and Image (1915–1917)

Chapter 6 “Surface and Symbol”: Wilde’s Salomé , French Symbolism and Yeats (1891–1906)

Chapter 7 Yeats’s Creative Use of Wilde’s Salomé in his Revisions of The Shadowy Waters , On Baile’s Strand and Deirdre

Chapter 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)

Chapter 9 “There Must Be Severed Heads”: Yeats’s Final Transumption of Oscar Wilde (1923–1939)