W.B. Yeats: Poet, Playwright, Magician

September 15, 2012 | 2

“Yeats wrote frankly about his vocation as a magician in several memoirs.” On how the occult drew in W. B. Yeats because “it was so deeply connected with his poetic craft.”

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