Yeats the Initiate. Essays on Certain Themes in the Writings of W. B. Yeats.
Mountrath, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxiv + 450pp. Red cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. A collection of essays and lectures focussing on Yeats and his occult and mystical interests, some previously unpublished, by this eminent Yeats scholar. Contents: Hades Wrapped in Cloud; Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland, an Introduction to Yeats's Selection; Ben Bulben Sets the Scene; AE; Yeats's Debt to Blake; From Blake to 'A Vision'; Yeats The Tarot and the Golden Dawn; Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death; Blake, Yeats and Pythagoras; Yeats and Kabir; Purgatory; Yeats and the Creed of Saint Patrick; 'Giraldus'; Yeat's Singing School: A Personal Acknowledgment. Illustrations. Light bruising and chafing to corners and spine ends, a few light spots to boards, page edges slightly darkened. Overall a tight, unmarked VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket (Dust jacket a little rubbed, light scratch to spine, not clipped, now covered in protected in removable mylar sleeve.). Item #64659
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