The influence of Hinduism in William Butler Yeats's "Meru".(Critical essay)

From: Yeats Eliot Review | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

William Butler Yeats considered himself to be "very religious," (1) and in his search for Truth one direction he turned was to the East, to an old, established religion: Hinduism. His first encounter with the philosophy was in 1885 or 1886, when he heard Bengali Brahmin Mohini Chatterjee speak. "It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless" (Autobiographies 113). (2) When he met Shri Purohit Swami in 1931, his interest in the philosophy intensified and lasted to the end of his life. (3) Two years before his ...

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