INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Prelude: Merrillian Influence, Kimon Friar, and Yeats; Yeats in Merrill’s Early Poems: Moving from Floodedness to Struggle CHAPTER TWO Prelude: First Readings of Yeats’s A Vision; Braving the Fire: Postures of Nonchalance in the Early Ouija Board Poems; Interlude: Returning to Yeats’s A Vision Merrill’s Dialogues of Self and Soul CHAPTER THREE Prelude: Reading Yeats’s Essays and Introductions; Observing Yeats through Merrill’s Changing Lights I. Yeats in “Ephraim”: The Master’s Ghostly Presence II. Yeats in Mirabell: Parody and Affiliation III. Yeats in Scripts: Abjection and Apotheosis IV. Yeats in “The Higher Keys”: Fading into Mastery CHAPTER FOUR A Haunted Mastery: Yeats after Sandover; Coda: Yeats’s Merrill, Merrill’s Bloom