Yeats the Initiate

The poetry of WB Yeats is infused with his fascination with the occult, and no one understood this better than the poet, critic and scholar Kathleen Raine. The fruit of a lifetimes study, the essays in this volume explore Yeatss interest in Neoplatonism, Catholic mysticism, Far-Eastern religions, Irish folklore, theosophy and the tarot, alongside his debt to William Blake. The many illustrations illuminate the arcane ideas that inspired much of Yeatss work.