BL. W. B. Yeats

238. Bushrui, Suheil Badi. ‘Yeats, India, Arabia, and Japan: The Search for a Spiritual Philosophy’. In Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, vol. 2, edited by Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok. Tubingen: Narr, 1987.

Focuses in more detail on Yeats’s interests in Indian and Arabic sources than Japanese, and asserts that the latter, ‘being a matter of form [derived from nô] alone, proved a brief, limited influence’.