This is a fascinating study of Yeats's aesthetics, in which the writing is profoundly engaged with the inner world of Yeats's poetry. Holdridge's familiarity with the internal stresses of Yeats's vision is grounded in serious and painstaking work in philosophy and literary theory from Kant to Kristeva. Driving the analysis is the author's sense of the significance and the human importance of Yeats's poetry and thought, which he links to contemporary issues of morality, politics, and sexuality. This elegantly written and approachable book will be central to the future of Yeats criticism.