Cat and the Moon

W. B. Yeats

Cat and the Moon

Dublin

Cuala Press

1924

Inscribed to Lady Gregory, the dedicatee: “‘The Cat & the Moon’ was suggested by a story by Lady Gregory about the Well of St. Colman at Kiltartan W.B. Yeats.” With Lady Gregory’s bookplate.

Published as Yeats was on the cusp of turning sixty years old, Cat and the Moon includes works ranging from the title poem, perhaps reflecting on the nature of his relationship with Maud Gonne; to “Reflections in Time of Civil War,” looking back at the just-concluded Irish Civil War; to “Leda and the Swan,” which considers death through the prism of Greek myth and the Trojan War.