Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler. Autobiographies. London Macmillan, 1926. 477p. pp. 227-228 contain references to Golden Dawn and Ayton... 

Yeats, William Butler. Autobiographies. New York Macmillan, 1938. 

Yeats, William Butler.The poems. Edited by R. Finneran. Edited by R. Finneran. London Macmillan, 1983. 

Yeats, William Butler. Selected criticism and prose. London Pan, 1976. 

Yeats, William Butler. A vision. London Macmillan, 1961. 

Yeats, William Butler. Rosa alchemica. rhttp //www.hermetics.org/pdf/rslcm.pdfl. 2002. 

Yeats, William Butler. 1897. Rosa Alchemica. In Mythologies. New York Collier, 1969. 267-92. 

Duprey, J.M. "Hermetic and platonic elements in the philosophy of William Butler Yeats." MA thesis, American Univ., 1966. 

Moore, V. The unicorn William Butler Yeats search for reality. New York Macmillan, 1954. 519p. 

In William Butler Yeats s 1897 story Rosa Alchemica, the narrator tells of a mysterious visit from his old friend Michael Robartes, who comes upon the narrator in his Dublin home as he is conducting alchemical experiments. They engage in a late-night conversation replete with exotic incense and strange visions. Robartes then convinces the narrator to join his Order of the Alchemical Rose and takes him to a secluded seashore, where the Order secretly houses its initiates and its large alchemical library. After preparing for a magical initiation ritual, the narrator relates ... 

Havelock Ellis gave a small amount of his peyote to the poet William Butler Yeats, who wrote back to Ellis about the impressive "visuals ... 

Around the turn of the twentieth century, the spirit of ennui that had gripped the French Romantic writers of the mid-nineteenth century crossed the English Channel and settled on a coterie of Enghsh writers such as Arthur Symons, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Dowson, Oscar Wilde, and Havelock Elhs. Yeats called them the "Tragic Generation". 

William Butler Yeats (although admittedly in a different context), zeroing in on the destiny of virtually all organic materials (whether they be rubber tires, tree stumps, or human bodies) as they move through time. 

I. William Butler Yeats, Essays and Introductions (New York Macmillan, 1968), p. 319. 

See John McCallum, Irish Memories and Australian Hopes William Butler Yeats and Louis Esson , Westerly, 34 2 (June 1989), pp. 33-40. 

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, "THE FASCINATION OF WHAT S DIFFICULT"... 

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet who received the Nobel prize for literature in 1923. 

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