Yeats and the occult

by George Mills Harper

Yeats and the Occult

Genres: Occult, Poetry

322 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

George Mills Harper is R.O. Lawton Distinguised Professor at Florida State University, having taught previously at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Florida, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He has lectured widely on W.B. Yeats in Europe and America, and has served as president of the College English Association and the Southern Modern Language Association.

Reviews

[Edward Moore]

The Autobiography of W.B. Yeats was one of the most fascinating books I have read. Not sure why. His poetry has a combination of the mystical, poetic form, Irish mystery, and spiritual presence that is magical to me. Perhaps the spiritualism and "occult" around i n his day is kind of hackneyed these days. many of those mediums were just magicians in the practical senses. I think Aleister Crowley was a howling fraud, myself. However, I am a believer in the spiritual and the connection we all must have in a "higher" realm. I was very interested in the connections to Jung, then.