The early letters and years [of W.B. Yeats] are heavy with the occult: [Quoting Yeats:] "If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write, It holds to my work the same relation that the philosophy of Godwin held to the work of Shelley and I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance-the revolt of the soul against the intellect-now beginning in the world. I preach William Blake and him allegorized.”