Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats starts out the main body of our text by tossing the reader straightway into the deep end of the pool, launching at once into the core images that undergird his magical philosophy. In another sense, of course, that’s exactly the difficulty, because it’s all too easy to land with a splash in th...