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by: Susan Johnston Graf
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.8
EAN: 9781578631384
ISBN: 1578631386
Label: Red Wheel / Weiser
Manufacturer: Red Wheel / Weiser
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: June 01, 2000
Publisher: Red Wheel / Weiser
Release Date: June 01, 2000
Sales Rank: 1173746
Studio: Red Wheel / Weiser
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W.B. Yeats--Twentieth Century Magus is a comprehensive study of his magical practices and beliefs. Yeats moved through many different phases of spiritual development, believing that his life was an intellectual, spiritual, and artistic quest--a quest greatly influenced by Celtic lore, Theosophy, Golden Dawn ceremonial magic, Swedenborg's metaphysics, the works of Jacob Boehme, and Neo-Platonism. For Yeats, writing poetry was an act of divine possession, and he believed that a perfected soul was the source of his inspiration, visiting him during times of superconscious awareness. Susan Johnston Graf meticulously documents and provides evidence that Yeat's poetry is brilliant, lyric narrative of realtiy captured through the mind of a practicing magician working in the Western Tradition.
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Rating: - Yeats's Occultism Explored with Intelligence
Susan Johnston Graf has done something quite rare in Yeats criticism. She has examined the poets occult beliefs without prejudice, accepted them for what they were, and examined exactly what they might mean to his writing, without any snide disclaimers or protestations of disbelief which usually accompanies such studies.
In the first fourth of the book Ms Graf gives a clear summary of W. B. Yeats's occult background in Theosophy, his long association with the Order of the Golden ... Read More
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