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On page 3 of Helen Vendler’s Our secret discipline: Yeats and lyric form I read:

And since there is no better motive for writing on a subject than a gap on library shelves, I began in earnest, some years ago, to study Yeats’s lyric style.

I wonder is there a potential service here somewhere 😉 Proactive research recommendations based on patterns of publication!

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