Despite this, Yitz was still fascinated by Miss Goaung and wrote the play "Countess Cataline" based on her. In the play, Catherine sells her soul to the devil so that her people will not be famine, and finally goes to heaven. It was not until 1899 that the play was staged, and it sparked many religious and political controversies.

Finally, in 1903, Miss Gang married John McBride, a politician of the Irish National Movement. In this year, Ye Tzu left for the United States for a long lecture tour. During this time, he had a brief affair with Olivia Shakespeare. They met in 1896 but broke up a year later.

It was also in 1896 that Yeats became acquainted with Mrs. Augusta Gregory, introduced to their mutual friend Edward Martin. Mrs. Gregory encouraged Yeats to join the nationalist movement and to write plays.

Although Yeats was influenced by French symbolism, it is clear that his creations have a clear and distinctively Irish style. This style was reinforced by Yeats's dealings with the younger generation of Irish writers.

Together with Lady Gregory, Martin, and a number of other Irish writers, Yeats founded the famous "Irish Renaissance" (or "Celtic Renaissance").

In addition to the literary work of writers, the translation and excavation of ancient legends, Gaelic poetry, and modern Gaelic folk songs by academic translators also played a huge role in the Irish Renaissance movement.

The representative figure was Douglas Head, who later became the president of Ireland, and his compilation of "Love Songs of Connaught Province" was highly regarded.

One of the most enduring achievements of the movement was the founding of the Abby Theatre.

Year 1889. The Irish Literary Theatre founded by Yeats, Mrs. Gregory, Martin and George Moore. This group only existed for two years and was not successful.

With the help of two Irish brothers William Fay and Frank Fay, who had extensive experience in dramaturturgy, and Yeats's unpaid secretary Anne Elizabeth Fredericka Holniemann, a wealthy Englishwoman who had participated in the London premiere of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and Men in 1894, the group was able to forge a new era of national theatre in Ireland.

With the involvement of the famous playwright John Millington Sheen, the group even made a lot of money from theatrical performances in Dublin, and on December 27, 1904, the Abbey Theatre was built.

On the opening night of the theatre, two of Yeats's plays were grandly released. From then until his death, Yeats's creative career was always associated with the Abby Theatre. He was not only one of the board members of the theater, but also a prolific playwright.

In 1902, Yeats funded the establishment of the Dan Emer publishing house, which published works by writers related to the Renaissance. In 1904 the publishing house was renamed the Cura Press.

The publishing house existed until 1946. It has been run by two of Yetz's sisters. A total of 70 books were published, 48 of which were written by Ye Tzu himself. In the summer of 1917, Yetz reunited with Miss Oka and proposed to her adopted daughter, but was rejected.

September. He proposed to an Englishwoman, George Hedris, instead. She agreed. The two got married on October 20 of that year.

Soon. Yeats bought the Vallerie Tower, located near the Chur Park, and soon renamed it the "Turbarelli Tower". Yeats spent most of the rest of his summer here.

In 1919, Yeats's eldest daughter, Ann Yetz, was born in Dublin. Ann inherited her mother's wisdom, serenity, and kindness. and his father's extraordinary artistic talent, who later became a painter.

Throughout his life, Yeats had a keen interest in mysticism and spiritualism. In 1885, Yeats and some friends founded the Dublin Brotherhood of Occultism. The group held its first assembly on June 16, with Ye Tzu as the leader.

In the same year, the Theosophical Society in Dublin was officially opened under the organization of the psychic Brahmin Moses Nishatri, and Yetz attended his first séance the following year.

Later, Ye Tzu indulged in mysticism and spiritism. In 1900, he even became the leader of the Golden Dawn Society. He joined the organization in 1890. After getting married, Yeats and his wife tried the popular unconscious writing.

Yeats's mystic tendencies are particularly evident in his famous poem Leda and the Swan. Drawing from Greek mythology, this short poem tells the story of Zeus who transforms into a swan and marries the beautiful Leda and gives birth to two daughters (Helen, famous, who sparked the Trojan War, and Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek army). This motif has appeared repeatedly in Western literary and artistic works.

There have been various interpretations and interpretations of Yeats's original intention for this masterpiece, with some arguing that "the root of historical change is sex and war", while others believe that "history is the result of the combined action of human creativity and destructive power". The mainstream literary history of the West regards Leda and the Swan as a landmark work of symbolist poetry.

In the formation of Yeats's mysticism, Catherine Tynan's influence is not insignificant. Tai Nan was a talented poetess with whom Ye Tzu had a close relationship in her early years. It was under the influence of Tai Nan that Ye Tzu frequently participated in the activities of various mystic organizations. Tai Nan admired Ye Ci's talent all his life, but Ye Ci gradually distanced himself from her later.

Yeats's mystical tendencies were significantly influenced by Indian religion, and in his later years he even translated the Hindu Upanishads into English himself. Psychic doctrine and supernatural meditation became the inspiration for Yeats's late poetry.

Some critics have criticized the mysticism in Yeats's poetry for its lack of rigor and credibility. W.H. Auden sharply criticized Yeats in his later years as "an exhibit of a deplorable adult whose brain has been invaded by witchcraft and Indian gibberish."

Yet it was during this period that Yeats wrote many of the most monumental works of his life. To understand the mysteries of Yeats's poetry in his later years, it is necessary to understand the mystical system of thought in his 1925 book Spiritual Vision.

Today, people read this book to understand Yeats's later poems, but not as a religious or philosophical work.

In 1913, Yeats met the young American poet Ezra Pound in London. In fact, Pound came to London in part to get acquainted with the poet, who was a little older than him. Pound considered Yeats "the only poet worthy of serious study".

From 1913 to 1916, Yeats and Pound spent each winter in a country house in Arston Woods. During this time, Pound served as Yeats's nominal assistant.

However, when Pound revised some of Yeats's poems without Yeats's permission and published them in Poetry magazine, the relationship between the two poets began to deteriorate.

Pound's revisions to Yeats's poems mainly reflect his abhorrence of Victorian poetic rhythm. Soon, however, both poets began to miss the days when they worked together and learned from each other.

In particular, Pound's knowledge of Japanese Noh from Ernest Fenorosa's widow provided the inspiration for Yetz's forthcoming aristocratic plays.

The first play written by Ye Tzu that imitated Japanese Noh was "By the Well of the Eagle". He dedicated the first draft of the work to Pound in January 1916.

Yeats is often considered one of the most important poets of the 20th century to write in English. However, unlike most modernist poets who have been experimenting with free-form poetry, Yeats is a master of traditional poetic forms. (To be continued......)