…through much of the 18th century. Not only the great names associated with it, Coleridge and de Quincey, but Byron and Shelley. All of these people dabbled in opium. Well, what comes out of the english romantic imagination's contact with the reveries of…

…You know this poem, right? So it's operating in the light of that same feeling. But where? What we get out of Shelley is an archaeological site, a shattered wreck. What we get out of Yeats is something much darker and more menacing, something…