This book deals with W. B. Yeats's mystical experience and explores how mysticism is exemplified in his poetry. We cannot understand Yeats deeply without considering the mystical dimension always fundamentally at stake in his work. The book includes Yeats's interests in the mystical and mythical elements of the world's dominant cultures and, accordingly, his interpretation of history in a context that broadly negotiated with magic, the occult, theosophy, alchemy, astrology, mythology, mysticism, and religion. The book tackles Celtic culture and mysticism, highlighting Yeats's longing for the...

This book deals with W. B. Yeats's mystical experience and explores how mysticism is exemplified in his poetry. We cannot understand Yeats deeply without considering the mystical dimension always fundamentally at stake in his work. The book includes Yeats's interests in the mystical and mythical elements of the world's dominant cultures and, accordingly, his interpretation of history in a context that broadly negotiated with magic, the occult, theosophy, alchemy, astrology, mythology, mysticism, and religion. The book tackles Celtic culture and mysticism, highlighting Yeats's longing for the...

Edwin Arlington Robinson was a prolific American poet during the 1920s. This book approaches one of the critical features of Robinson's poetry, often overlooked by critics, which is his method of narration. Narration is one of the crucial points in Robinson's poetry that puzzles his critics. Robinson's poems are portraits that include characters, setting, a method of narration and all other points that fit any narrative piece. This book takes as its point of departure the idea that unless Robinson's narrative approach is discussed, no proper understanding of his poems will be achieved.The...