" More famous essays by this author include one on Shakespeare's history plays, "At Stratford-on-Avon," as well as an introduction to The Well of the Saints, by J.M. Synge.
One essay by this man opens with a statement of belief in the "practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic," and is appropriately titled "Magic." Another essay by this man mourns the title "moral genius," eulogizing a local magistrate named John Shawe-Taylor. This writer recalls the "geometrical arrangement of history," in a past in an essay titled "A General Introduction to My Works." He claimed to feel at home when reading Bhagwan Sri Hamsa's The Holy Mountain, which is also discussed in his essay "The Mandukya Upanishad." This man's writings are collected in volumes like Ideas of Good and Evil and The Cutting of an Agate, the latter of which contains an essay on the influence of Asian drama on this writer titled "Certain Noble Plays of Japan." More famous essays by this author include one on Shakespeare's history plays, "At Stratford-on-Avon," as well as an introduction to The Well of the Saints, by J.M. Synge. For 10 points, identify this writer whose nonfiction includes an essay that opens with a conversation with a Bengali doctor and introduced to the English-speaking world Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali.
One essay by this man opens with a statement of belief in the "practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic," and is appropriately titled "Magic."
William Butler Yeats