Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage

This work explores an aspect of Yeats''s writing largely ignored until now: namely, his wide-ranging absorption in S.T. Coleridge. Gibson explores the consistent and densely woven allusions to Coleridge in Yeats''s prose and poetry, often in conjunction with other Romantic figures, arguing that the earlier poet provided him with both a model of philosopher - ''the sage'' - and an interpretation of...