The Influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats: "An Echo of Someone Else's Music"

Section I Influence and Identity.-1.Introduction: "An Echo of Someone Else's Music".-2.Establishing Influence.-3."A Provincial Like Myself": Yeats, Wilde and the Politics of Identity.-Section II Mask and Image.-4.Metaphysics and Masks (1908-1917).-5.The Idea Incarnate: Mask and Image (1915-1917).-Section III Salomé : Symbolism, Dance and Theories of Being.-6."Surface and Symbol": Wilde's Salomé, French Symbolism and Yeats (1891-1906).-7.Yeats's Creative Use of Wilde's Salomé in his Revisions of The Shadowy Waters, On Baile's Strand and Deirdre .-8."Drama as Personal as a Lyric": The Centrality of Wilde's Concepts of Dance, Desire and Image to Yeats's Developing Aesthetic (1916-1921).-9."There Must Be Severed Heads": Yeats's Final Transumption of Oscar Wilde (1923-1939).-10.Conclusion.