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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