252 Pages
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Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral ideal, must strive to realize his unity with the whole of humanity, and work ceaselessly for others."... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction: A Philosophy. . . Logical and Boundless: The Esoteric Life and Thought of W.B. Yeats Chapter One: Setting A Boy’s Turbulent Days to Rest: Mastering Passionate Youth through an Occult Pastoral Chapter Two: Yeats’s Hermetic Nationalism: From Mosada to Cathleen Ni Houlihan Chapter Three: Rewording Madness and Testing a Philosophy: The Ellis-Yeats Works of William Blake Chapter Four: Strategic Celticism: Folklore, Theosophy, and Identity Conclusion: Yeats’s Biography and Blavatsky: The Poet and the Pythoness Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Ken Monteith
