Yeats, Folklore, and Occultism

Contexts of the Early Work and Thought

• Author(s): Frank Kinahan,
• Publisher: Unwin Hyman
• Pages: 255
• ISBN_10: 0048000620
  ISBN_13: 9780048000620
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... 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 magazine.