14. ‘A Bronze Head’ and Beyond

Sustained comparison of ‘A Bronze Head’ with ‘Among School Children.’ Poems about two other Muses, examined in the light cast by Maud Gonne: Olivia Shakespear (‘The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love’ and ‘Speech After Long Silence’) and Yeats’s wife: ‘Solomon and the Witch,’ ‘Under Saturn,’ ‘An Image from a Past Life,’ and ‘The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid.’