Word: spiritualists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frivolous to call the encounter a recognition scene, but in some ways the poet and the bird were wackily well matched. Yeats was a genius, probably the 20th century's greatest poet. But his private life and personal beliefs were filled with quirks and oddities, mystical beliefs and spiritualist devotions. Essays and Introductions, published in book form 22 years after his death, is a voyage into that other area of Yeats's life. Behind the book's orchidaceous rhetoric lies the cult of beauty; behind that lies the mystique of art as religion; but behind everything lies...