This book is a comparative study of the confluence of mysticism and modernity in the poetical and cultural outlooks of Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their commitments to transnational mysticism deeply form and inform their modernist literary projects as well as their understanding of cultural modernity.

Ashim Dutta, M.A. (Dhaka), M.A. (Montclair), Ph.D. (York, UK), is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Dhaka. He has published essays in Bengali and English in such scholarly journals as The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, International Yeats Studies, Gitanjali and Beyond, and Bangla Academy Patrika (Dhaka).

Introduction: 'where poetry and religion are the same thing'

1. The Formation of Tagore's Mystic-Modern Consciousness

2. 'Deathless feet': Mystical Poetics of Early Yeats

3. The Spiritual Evolution of Humans in Tagore

4. 'Artifice of Eternity': Yeats's Antithetical Vision

Conclusion