A Rumor of Soul: The Poetry of W.B. Yeats, Critical Introduction by Jeremiah Webster
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“Yeats is often cherry-picked for his swooniest love poems, but Webster reveals the deeper truth that draws us to yearn for Innisfree and wish for the cloths of heaven: in Yeats, we find a powerful and seductive conviction that the human soul exists and is immortal. This belief is by no means a given in modern society, as Webster shows by orchestrating a chord of voices, from contemporary philosophers to Arcade Fire. It is an intimidating consensus, and Yeats becomes, in Webster's telling, a rebellious voice urging the soul to "clap its hands and sing, and louder sing."
Meredith McCann / Editor-In-Chief / Dappled Things
"Jeremiah Webster stands in the great tradition of essayists who use the literary form of the introduction to cast a vision. He knows Yeats, of course. He is comfortable and familiar with Yeats as only a scholar who loves the subject can be. Loves, not simply knows. His introduction functions as a literate, insightful, and glorious appeal that soul (yes, soul!) once again inhabit the world of learning, and it does so with passion and elegance.”
Gerald Sittser / Professor of Theology / Whitworth University
Meredith McCann / Editor-In-Chief / Dappled Things
"Jeremiah Webster stands in the great tradition of essayists who use the literary form of the introduction to cast a vision. He knows Yeats, of course. He is comfortable and familiar with Yeats as only a scholar who loves the subject can be. Loves, not simply knows. His introduction functions as a literate, insightful, and glorious appeal that soul (yes, soul!) once again inhabit the world of learning, and it does so with passion and elegance.”
Gerald Sittser / Professor of Theology / Whitworth University
