Indian Mythic Vision in W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot

This article is a critical study on the oriental sources which two major poets-W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot-exploited for the exploration of a new centre of life and a new basis of values. They felt irresistibly drawn to the glorious myths of ancient India and attempted to interweave them with those of the West through their immortal works of art. They were influenced by eastern thought, but more as borrowers than as disciples, because the temper of their own thinking was not eastern. What they learned from India was worked over and reshaped by a sense of values that they believed had come down to them through scholars-Indian and English. This sense of values could transform their gleanings is theosophy, magic, Buddhism and spiritualism from a hotchpotch to a harmony.