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This chapter details the influence of Blake on W. B. Yeats’ circle before the twentieth century. It traces Yeats’ earliest engagements with Blake in the 1880s–1890s, starting with his collaboration with Edwin J. Ellis[aut]Ellis, Edwin J. on The Works of William Blake[aut]Yeats, W.B.works, essays and criticism. The chapter demonstrates how Yeats advocated for an intellectual, occultist Blake through outlining Blake’s esoteric influences. It situates his reception of Blake contextually amongst the esoteric groups and mystic writers in his immediate circle. The chapter then considers Yeats’ connections to writer and artist George William Russell ‘Æ’, and Yeats’ promotion of Russell as the next Blake. The chapter analyses Russell’s poetry and reception in his spiritual community, and details his mystic influences, which included Blake, Boehme, and H. P. Blavatsky[aut]Blavatsky, H.P.. Finally, the chapter analyses the works of Fiona Macleod and William Sharp, detailing their deep engagement with Blake’s subversion of binary genderBinary gender. This chapter represents the first critical study to compare Macleod, Sharp, and Blake. Crucially, it is one of the first academic considerations of Macleod’s and Sharp’s queerness and gender-nonconformity, relating these aspects of the authors’ identities to visionary experience.

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Late Nineteenth-Century Blakeans: W. B. Yeats, George Russell ‘Æ’, William Sharp, and Fiona Macleod

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    2025年

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  • Jodie Marley

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This chapter details the influence of Blake on W. B. Yeats’ circle before the twentieth century. It traces Yeats’ earliest engagements with Blake in the 1880s–1890s, starting with his collaboration with Edwin J. Ellis[aut]Ellis, Edwin J. on The Works of William Blake[aut]Yeats, W.B.works, essays and criticism. The chapter demonstrates how Yeats advocated for an intellectual, occultist Blake through outlining Blake’s esoteric influences. It situates his reception of Blake contextually amongst the esoteric groups and mystic writers in his immediate circle. The chapter then considers Yeats’ connections to writer and artist George William Russell ‘Æ’, and Yeats’ promotion of Russell as the next Blake. The chapter analyses Russell’s poetry and reception in his spiritual community, and details his mystic influences, which included Blake, Boehme, and H. P. Blavatsky[aut]Blavatsky, H.P.. Finally, the chapter analyses the works of Fiona Macleod and William Sharp, detailing their deep engagement with Blake’s subversion of binary genderBinary gender. This chapter represents the first critical study to compare Macleod, Sharp, and Blake. Crucially, it is one of the first academic considerations of Macleod’s and Sharp’s queerness and gender-nonconformity, relating these aspects of the authors’ identities to visionary experience.