MUCH LABOURING: CONSTRUCTIONS OF W. B. YEATS'S "IN THE SEVEN WOODS" AND "GREEN HELMET" VOLUMES (YEATS WILLIAM BUTLER, IRELAND).

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In addition to enabling fuller readings of the two volumes, reconstructing the original versions of In the Seven Woods and the Green Helmet allows this study to recover Yeats's poetic development--unobscured by subsequent revisions--during the first years of this century. After 1899 Yeats slowly shifted from a poetics centered upon symbolism to a poetics centered upon dramatic conflict, and this transformation affected not only his style and choice of subject matter, but also his attempts to organize