W. B. Yeats / 叶芝

W. B. Yeats is one of the densest cases in 60.闲聊伟大作家们的八卦（第一弹）. The episode begins from the familiar romantic poet image around “When You Are Old,” then shifts toward occult belief, strange public behavior, urgent marriage astrology, seances, automatic writing, and the [[GoldenDawn|Golden Dawn / 金色黎明]].

Yeats is central to Occult And Pseudoscience In Literary Modernity. The source describes his wife as a medium-like collaborator, “Leo Africanus” as a spirit or alternate self in their practice, and [[AleisterCrowley|Aleister Crowley]] as a hostile occult rival. The point is not to diagnose Yeats medically, but to show that mystical systems could become part of a writer’s creative and personal machinery.

The episode also places Yeats inside Author Myth Deflation through politics and late-life desire. His anti-democratic leanings, praise for the Irish Blueshirts, fascination with Mussolini, rejuvenation surgery, and favoritism toward a younger lover’s poetry all complicate the romantic-poet stereotype.

Connections

• 60.闲聊伟大作家们的八卦（第一弹） - source episode.
• [[GoldenDawn|Golden Dawn / 金色黎明]] - occult organization Yeats joined.
• Aleister Crowley / 阿莱斯特·克劳利 - occult rival in the source’s account.
• Occult And Pseudoscience In Literary Modernity - concept for occultism and literary modernity.
• Author Myth Deflation and Literary Gossip As Context - frames for holding talent, belief, politics, and anecdote together.