Introduction : a "philosophy ... logical and boundless" : the esoteric life and thought of W.B. Yeats -- Setting "a boy's turbulent days" to rest : mastering passionate youth through an occult pastoral -- Yeats's hermetic nationalism : from Mosada to Cathleen ni Houlihan -- Rewording madness and testing a philosophy : the Ellis-Yeats Works of William Blake -- Strategic celticism : folklore, theosophy, and identity -- Conclusion: Yeats's biography and Blavatsky : the poet and the pythoness