""Definitive. . . . Chapters are devoted to the Lady Gregory circle, to eighteenth-century Anglo- Irish culture, and to each of the poet's avowed avatars, Swift, Burke, Berkeley, and Goldsmith.""The Southern Review""

This landmark study, written for the Irish specialist, modernist, or advanced student of Irish literature, demonstrates the importance of Georgian Ireland for William Butler Yeats and his work in the last twenty years of his life.