T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats: 1915-1933

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between T. S. Eliot the greatest modernist poet and W. B. Yeats the greatest poet of the Irish Literary Renaissance during the years 1915-1933. This paper is to thoroughly trace the relationship or the influential interaction between Eliot and Yeats through correspondence in the six volumes of The Letters of T. S. Eliot ; W. B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters , and through Eliot’s views on Yeats and Yeats’s comments on Eliot. The relationship between Eliot and Yeats is a typically ambivalent relationship as revealed either in the subjective letters of Eliot, Yeats, and Vivien or via the more objective diary of Woolf. This study will further elucidate the relationship between Eliot and Yeats during the years 1934-1939, focusing mainly on The Letters of T. S. Eliot 7: 1934-1935 (2017) and the forthcoming Letters of T. S. Eliot 8: 1936-1937 (2019) as well as Eliot’s comments on Yeats.