I think one way in which we can see a merging of Yeats’s mysticism and Heaney’s interest in nature as an organic form of poetry is through Celtic tree lore. Although mysticism thickly coats Yeats’s poetry, […]

Heaney conveys his voice through autobiographical elements, testing the distinction between speaker and poet and blurring the dividing line between his individual sense of identity and the one represented in his […]

“If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single line…The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.”
–Yeats writing to his friend, […]