Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
List of Abbreviations......Page 9
A Note on the Text......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Personality......Page 22
1 Phantasmagoria: the Personality of Coleridge in the Earlier Prose of Yeats......Page 24
2 ‘Escaped from Isolating Method’: Coleridge as Sage in Yeats’s 1930 Diary......Page 42
Part II: Transcendence and Immanence......Page 68
3 Reason and Understanding: Coleridge’s Philosophical Influence on Yeats......Page 70
4 ‘Wisdom, Magic, Sensation’: Coleridge’s ‘Supernatural’ Poems in the Later Poetry of Yeats......Page 99
Part III: Metaphor......Page 128
5 ‘Natural Declension of the Soul’: Yeats and the Mirror......Page 130
6 Towards ‘Berkeley’s Roasting Spit’: Coleridge and Metaphors of Unity......Page 162
Conclusion......Page 188
Appendix: Yeats’s Coleridge Collection......Page 190
Notes......Page 197
Bibliography......Page 221
Index......Page 229