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“ The Spirit Medium” (1938) is a strange, powerful, though little known poem that superbly illustrates Yeats’ s skill in adapting and re-working features of the traditional ballad in order to dramatize his own lifelong search for esoteric, “ occult” wisdom [VP, 599–600].
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© 1975 Robert O’Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds
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Hirschberg, S. (1975). An Encounter with the Supernatural in Yeats’s “ The Spirit Medium”. In: Harper, G.M. (eds) Yeats and the Occult. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02937-2_15
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