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Yeats in the 1890s: Tragic Poets, Mystics and Magicians
02/26/2026
Yeats in the 1890s: Tragic Poets, Mystics and Magicians
Cold and Passionate as the Dawn: A podcast devoted to 19th and 20th Century English Language Poetry in the Romantic tradition Season 1: The Poetry of William Butler Yeats Episode 2: Yeats in the 1890s: Tragic Poets, Mystics and Magicians In the 1890s, Yeats explored a bewildering variety of interests, and produced poetry, plays, essays, and folklore collections, started his longest romantic relationship and engaged with mystical and magical groups, the Irish nationalist movement, and a group of young English and Irish poets in London who tended to meet tragic fates. A busy guy! This episode will deal with his fellow poets and his mystical interests, while Irish nationalism and his relationship with Maude Gonne will fall to episode 3. Poems from fellow members of the “Rhymers Club”: Lionel Johnson - The Dark Angel Ernest Dowson - Cynara and Extreme Unction Arthur Symons - Haschisch Poems by Yeats from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) Into the Twilight, Song of the Wandering Aengus, He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved And Longs For The End Of The World, The Valley of the Black Pig, The Secret Rose.
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