[William Butler] Yeats, an accomplished magicker, and the shared symbolism of the occult forms a natural part of their communication, which gives way over the years to more practical and present-tense concerns. Yet the overall effect of this correspondence is to humanize the visionary. Yeats may have been carrying around in his head a kind of vastly complicated zodiac, a system for explaining the whole of human life and its history, but as he writes to her of calming down a hysterical devotee of the Golden Dawn, or discussing with the Indian mystic, Shri Purohit Swami, how to handle the difficult Mrs. Foden in Spain, it all feels nicely ordinary.from The Times Literary Supplement: History, magic and William Butler Yeats
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