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CERTIFICATE
DECLARATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
Introduction
Method of Procedure
Works Cited
1 Making of the Poet
1.1 Introduction
1.2. Childhood Days
1.3. The Ancestral Tree
1.4. Parents - John Butler Yeats. Susan Pollexfen
1.5. School days
1.6. A. E. (George Russell)
1.7. Bedford Park
1. 8. Topography of Ireland
1.9. Influence of the Classics
1.10. Folklore and Fairytales
1.11. Hermetic Society, Golden Dawn and the Cabbala
1.12. The Rhymers Club
1.13. French Symbolists
1.14. Maud Gonne
1.15. Lady Gregory and Coole Park
1.16. Georgie Hyde Lees
1.17. The Irish Theatre
1.18. Iris11 Politics - Civil War
1.19. Christian lreland
1.20. Indian Philosophy
1.21. Ezra Pound and Noh Plays
1.22. Last Days
Works Cited
2 Yeats and Ecumenical Mysticism
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Mysticism - General Import
2.3. Definitions
2.4. Greek or Hellenic Mysticism
2.5. Hindu Mysticism
2.6. Hebrew Mysticism
2.7. Christian Mysticism
2.8. Features of Christian Mysticism
2.9. Mystical Trends in William Blake, William Wordsworth and Rabindranath Tagore.
2.9.1. William Blake
2.9.2. Wordsworth
2.9.3. Rabindranath Tagore
2.10. Mystical Overtones in A Vision,
2.11. Yeatss Unique Status as a Mystic
Works Cited
3 Symbolism: The Yeatsian Mode of Expression
Introduction
3.2. Symbolism: Origin and History
3.3. Symbolisni - Definition.
3.4. The Symbolist Movement
3.5. The French influence
3.6. William Blake
3.7. Irish Christianity
Works Cited
4 Early Dream Phase
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Landscape of Ireland
4.3. Irish Legends
4.4. John Butlers Scepticism
4.5. Painter Friends
4.6. Spiritualistic Organizations
4.7. Mohini and Indian Philosophy
4.8. Dominant Symbols in the Early Phase
4.8.1 Oisin - St. Patrick - Niarnh
4.8.2. The Deer
4.8.3. The Boar
4.8.4. The Rose
4.8.5. The Tree
4.8.6. The Flame
4.9. Christian Overtones
Works Cited
5 Out of Old Mythologies
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Frustrated Love Arfair with Matrd Gonne
5.3. Unpleasant Experience at Abbey Theatre and Irish Politics
5.4. Dominant Symbol!$
5.4.1. The Arrow
5.4.2. The Star
5.4.3 Fire and Ela~nr
5.5. Christian Overtones in the Themes and Symbols
Works Cited
6 Sailing to the Unknown
6.1 Introduction
6.2. The Lament ove: r the Loss of Youth and Passio~
6.3. Georgie Hyde Lees and Automatic Writing
6.4. Departure of Friends and the Brutalities of Civil War
6.5. Major Symbols
6.5.1. Water
6.5.2. The Tower
6.5.3. Fire
6.5.4. The Beast and the Desert
6.5.5. The Gyre
6.6. Christian Overtones
Works Cited
7 Passage to the Winding Stair
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Disillusionment and Fear of Death
7.3. Demise of Political Comrades
7.4. Dominant Syn~bols
7.4.1. The Images of Burniag
7.4.2. The Water
7.4.3. Byzantium
7.4.4. The Gyre
7.4.5. Crazy Jane and Ribh
7.4.6. Tom the Lunatic
7.5. Christian Element in the Themes
Works Cited
8 In the Shadow of Ben Bulben
8.1 Introduction
8.2. Christian Overtones in the Symbols and Themes
8.3. Conclusion
Works Cited
Selected Bibliography