Yeats, Folklore and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought - Paperback

by Frank Kinahan (Author)

This lively introduction to the poems of W. B. Yeats, first published in 1988, provides a series of intriguing new readings of his work in relation to his profound involvement with occultism and folklore. During Yeats's formative years as an artist, two compelling movements were emerging: the revivals of interest in Irish folklore and in the mag