Eliot seems to have been much impressed by Yeats's poetics and poetic techniques, in particular the union of emotion and reason. Not only is Yeats a supreme Romantic - he is a poet of mysticism. To Eliot, Yeats is not just a great poet, but a great craftsman; Yeats's reputation as such a poet has remained strong, from the beginning up until now, as Eliot has foreseen. In Yeats's works, there are both aesthetic and mysterious elements, and just as we could call him a romantic-mystic poet. Eliot thinks highly of Yeats's pure poetry, with poetics based on the principle of art for art's sake. He praises Yeats as a great poet-craftsman, as we have seen in his works above. Yeats has been under the influence of French symbolists's poetic techniques, such as those of Baudelaire, Mallareme,. Neval, Verlaine. In Yeats's works, there is their influence.
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