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Abstract This study is based on a belief in the repetitive nature of things, which has a function and significance in the attempt to acknowledge and identify a group of poets who are out of print, rarely read, taught, or brought into the mainstream of critical discourse. The British poets in Egypt in the 1940s and after, those who for a variety of reasons have found themselves in the Middle East as soldiers, university academics, diplomats, or press attachés, among many other occupations, have many things in common among them to share with W.B. Yeats. There seem to be several themes, subjects, philosophies, and methods for expressing all these that unite the poets with W.B. Yeats’s writing and thought. It can be almost stated that both traditions go side by side. This dissertation examines the processes through which the works of W. B. Yeats, as representative of the poet-philosopher and psychologist generally, and as one of the most complex poets to write in English have become absorbed into the poetry of a neglected group of poets and consequently a neglected period in English literature. Yeats’s workings on a theory of History, of the Mask, of Spiritus Mundi, or of the Beast as examples, can be said to have fascinating appeal to Keith Douglas, Terence Tiller, and Lawrence Durrell, the three Cairo poets selected in the study to represent the period and its unacknowledged figures. The tracing of a connecting strain suggests that the two ages can be taken simultaneously. One can always discern the presence of some dead master, a ghost acting in the manner in which the ancestral repeatedly hovers on the contemporary space and time |