Making the Void Fruitful

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Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats--widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century--this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats's vision of life and death.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  Relations with women,  Occultism in literature,  Philosophy in literature,  Occultisme dans la littérature,  Philosophie dans la littérature