Raine: Yeats the Initiate, Dolmen Press, 1st ed. 1986

$250.00
A collection of essays and lectures focussing on Yeats and his occult and mystical interests, some previously unpublished, by this eminent Yeats scholar. Contents: Hades Wrapped in Cloud; Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland, an Introduction to Yeats's Selection; Ben Bulben Sets the Scene; AE; Yeats's Debt to Blake; From Blake to 'A Vision'; Yeats The Tarot and the Golden Dawn; Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death; Blake, Yeats and Pythagoras; Yeats and Kabir; Purgatory; Yeats and the Creed of Saint Patrick; 'Giraldus'; Yeat's Singing School: A Personal Acknowledgment. Illustrations. 8vo hardcover with dust jacket. 449pp. Burgundy cloth over boards. Gilt titles on spine. Tips are lightly rubbed as well as head and toe of spine. See photos, minor shelf wear. Jacket is intact, no rips, tears or voids. Binding is secure. Interior is clean and free from marks. VG.
A collection of essays and lectures focussing on Yeats and his occult and mystical interests, some previously unpublished, by this eminent Yeats scholar. Contents: Hades Wrapped in Cloud; Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland, an Introduction to Yeats's Selection; Ben Bulben Sets the Scene; AE; Yeats's Debt to Blake; From Blake to 'A Vision'; Yeats The Tarot and the Golden Dawn; Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death; Blake, Yeats and Pythagoras; Yeats and Kabir; Purgatory; Yeats and the Creed of Saint Patrick; 'Giraldus'; Yeat's Singing School: A Personal Acknowledgment. Illustrations. 8vo hardcover with dust jacket. 449pp. Burgundy cloth over boards. Gilt titles on spine. Tips are lightly rubbed as well as head and toe of spine. See photos, minor shelf wear. Jacket is intact, no rips, tears or voids. Binding is secure. Interior is clean and free from marks. VG.