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• Bachchan, Harbans Rai. W. B. Yeats and Occultism: a Study of his Works in Relation to Indian Lore, the Cabbala, Swedenborg, Boehme, and Theosophy. (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1965, LC SA-66-4612).
• Flannery, Mary Catherine. Yeats and Magic: the Earlier Works. Number 2 in the series ‘Irish Literary Studies." (Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1977, ISBN 0901072699; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1977, ISBN 0064921026).
• Gorski, William T. Yeats and Alchemy. Series Title: ‘SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions." (New York: State University of New York Press, to be published in 1996, ISBN 0791428419).
• Greer, Mary K. Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses. (Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1995, ISBN 0892815167). Mainly about Florence Farr, Annie Horniman, Maud Gonne, and Mina Bergson, but contains a lot of information about Yeats.
• Harper, George Mills. W. B. Yeats and W. T. Horton: the Record of an Occult Friendship. (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1980, ISBN 0391019074).
• Harper, George Mills, ed. Yeats and the Occult. Series Title: ‘Yeats Studies Series." (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975, ISBN 0770513085; London: Macmillan, 1975). [15 articles: ‘Yeats’s Occult Papers" (G. M. Harper), ‘Psychic Daughter, Mystic Son, Sceptic Father" (W. M. Murphy), ‘Yeats as Adept and Artist" (W. H. O’Donnell), ‘Hades Wrapped in Cloud" (K. Raine), ‘Yeats, Spiritualism, and Psychical Research" (A. Goldman), ‘'Preliminary Examination of the Script of E[lizabeth] R[adcliffe]’" (G. M. Harper and J. S. Kelly), ‘'A Subject of Investigation’: Miracle at Mirebeau" (G. M. Harper), ‘'He loved strange thought’: W. B. Yeats and William Thomas" (R. J. Finneran and G. M. Harper), ‘Michael Robartes; Two Occult Manuscripts" (W. K. Hood), ‘Mr. Yeats, Michael Robartes, and their Circle" (M. J. Sidnell), ‘'Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind’: Sources for Owen Aherne" (W. Gould), ‘W. B. Yeats and S. L. MacGregor Mathers" (L. W. Fennelly), ‘Yeats and Mr. Watkins’ Bookshop" (G. N. Watkins), ‘An Encounter with the Supernatural in Yeats’s 'The Spirit Medium’" (S. Hirschberg), ‘A Preliminary Note on the Text of A Vision (1937)" (R. J. Finneran).
• Harper, George Mills. Yeats’s Golden Dawn: the Influence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on the Life and Art of W. B. Yeats. (London: Macmillan, 1974, ISBN 0333150309; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974, ISBN 0064927180; San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1989, ISBN 080957070X).
  The definitive history of Yeats’s involvement with the Golden Dawn. Contains many of his letters and several private papers.
• Hough, Graham. The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats. (Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1984; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1984, ISBN 0389204641).
• Kinahan, Frank. Yeats, Folklore, and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought. (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988, ISBN 0048000620).
• Levine, Herbert J. Yeats’s Daimonic Renewal. Number 16 in the Series: ‘Studies in Modern Literature." (Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1983, ISBN 0835714276). Miscellaneous mystical and philosophical issues in Yeats’s work.
• Moore, Virginia. The Unicorn: William Butler Yeats’ Search for Reality. (New York: Macmillan, 1954, LC 54-9962; reprinted by New York: Octagon Books, 1973, ISBN 0374958564). The first work of serious scholarship which really came to terms with Yeats’ pursuit of ‘occult" topics.
• Olney, James. The Rhizome and the Flower: the Perennial Philosophy - Yeats and Jung. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980, ISBN 0520037480). Outlines the background mystical/magical concepts in Yeats’s poetry, with a Jungian interpretation.
• Raine, Kathleen. Yeats the Initiate: Essays on Certain Themes in the Work of W. B. Yeats. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1986, ISBN 0048090212; Mountrath, Ireland: Dolmen Press, 1986 ISBN 085105398X; Savage, Maryland: Barnes and Noble, 1990, ISBN 0389209511). [Contains 14 articles, most reprinted or revised, and profuse illustration: ‘Hades wrapped in a Cloud" (1976), ‘Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland, an Introduction to Yeats’s Selection" (1973), ‘Ben Bulben Sets the Scene" (1981), ‘AE" (1975), ‘Yeats’s debt to Blake" (1966), ‘From Blake to 'A Vision’" (1979), ‘Yeats, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn" (1972), ‘Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death" (1974), ‘Blake, Yeats, and Pythagoras" (1982), ‘Yeats and Kabir" (1984), ‘Purgatory" (1986), ‘Yeats and the Creed of St. Patrick" (1986), ‘Giraldus" (1986), ‘Yeats’s Singing School: A personal acknowledgment" (1980).]
• Raine, Kathleen. Yeats, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn. Number 2 in the Series: ‘New Yeats Papers." (Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1972, ISBN 0851051952; dist. by Humanities Press, 1976, ISBN 0851052843). Reproduces several diagrams from Mathers’ and Yeats’s G.D. notebooks.
• Roberts, Marie. British Poets and Secret Societies. (London and Sydney: Croom Helm Ltd: ISBN 0709922558; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books: ISBN 0389206059). A detailed study of Masonic and occult influences on the poetry of Smart, Burns, Shelley, Kipling, and Yeats. Contains many inaccuracies, though.
• Shimazu, Akira. W. B. Yeats and Occultism. (Tokyo, 1985). In Japanese.
• Surette, Leon. The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult. (Montreal, Buffalo: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993, ISBN 0773509763).

• Bornstein, George, and Gould, Warwick. ‘'To a Sister of the Cross and the Rose’: an Unpublished Early Poem.’ Yeats Annual, No. 7, ed. Warwick Gould, 1990, pp. 179-183.
• Cawley, Peter. ‘The Castle of Heroes: W. B. Yeats’ Celtic Mystery Order,’ Alexandria: The Journal of the Western Cosmological Traditions, Vol. 2, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Phanes Press, 1993.
• Coltrane, Robert. ‘Legend, Autobiography, and the Occult in 'The Cap and Bells’: a Fusion of Disparate Entities.’ Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Vol. VIII, ed. Richard J. Finneran, 1990, pp. 129-143.
• Deane, Seamus. ‘Yeats and the Occult.’ London Review of Books, Vol. 27, October 1984, pp. 18-31.
• Donoghue, Denis. ‘The Magic of W. B. Yeats.’ New York Review of Books, Vol. 41, No. 8, April 21, 1994, pp. 49-55.
• Gilbert, R. A. ‘Magical Manuscripts: an Introduction to the Archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.’ Yeats Annual, No. 5, ed. Warwick Gould, 1987, pp. 163-177, 4 plates. A highly recommended overview of extant G.D. primary source material. Reprints several letters and documents related to Yeats.
• Gilbert, R. A. ‘MSS in a Black Box: the Golden Dawn Papers of Dr. William Wynn Westcott.’ Yeats Annual, No. 6, ed. Warwick Gould, 1988, pp. 227-233.
• Gilbert, R. A. Obituary: ‘Ellic Howe (20 September 1910 - 28 September 1991).’ Yeats Annual, No. 10, ed. Warwick Gould, 1993, pp. 261-263.
• Gilbert, R. A. ‘'The One Deep Student’: Yeats and A. E. Waite.’ Yeats Annual, No. 3, ed. Warwick Gould, 1985, pp. 3-13.
• Gould, Warwick, and Toomey, Deirdre. ‘'Cycles Ago...’, Maud Gonne and the Lyrics of 1891.’ Yeats Annual, No. 7, ed. Warwick Gould, 1990, pp. 184-193. Gonne’s activities in the Golden Dawn are reviewed.
• Gould, Warwick. ‘Editor’s Introduction.’ Yeats Annual, No. 11, ed. Warwick Gould, 1995, pp. xix-xxii. Discusses the 1993 production of Florence Farr’s and Olivia Shakespear’s plays ‘The Beloved of Hathor’ and ‘The Shrine of the Golden Hawk.’.
• Gould, Warwick. ‘Paracelsus in Excelsis.’ Yeats Annual, No. 11, ed. Warwick Gould, 1995, pp. 176-184. Discusses Yeats’s fascination with the famous alchemist, Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenhheim, as well as attributions of various quotes and mottoes used by Yeats.
• Grubb, H. T. Hunt. ‘Yeats as an Occultist.’ The Occult Review, Vol. LXVII, No. 4, October 1940, pp. 191-195.
• Harper, George Mills. ‘From Zelator to Theoricus: Yeats 'Link with the Invisible Degrees.’’ Yeats Studies, an International Journal, No. 1, eds. Robert O’Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds, 1971, pp. 80-86.
• Harper, George Mills. ‘'Meditations upon Unknown Thought’: Yeats’s Break with MacGregor Mathers.’ Yeats Studies, an International Journal, No. 1, eds. Robert O’Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds, 1971, pp. 175-202.
• Kelly, John S. ‘Yeatsian Magic and Rational Magic: an Uncollected Review of W. B. Yeats.’ Yeats Annual, No. 3, ed. Warwick Gould, 1985, pp. 182-189.
• Kuch, Peter. ‘Yeats and the Occult.’ Prudentia, Supplementary Number: ‘The Concept of Spirit,’ 1985, pp. 199-218.
• Longenbach, James. ‘The Secret Society of Modernism: Pound, Yeats, Olivia Shakespear, and the Abbe de Montfaucon de Villars.’ Yeats Annual, No. 4, ed. Warwick Gould, 1986, pp. 103-120. Contains much about ‘Le Comte de Gabalis.’.
• Pearce, Donald R. ‘The Systematic Rose.’ Yeats Annual, No. 4, ed. Warwick Gould, 1986, pp. 195-200. Discusses Tarot correspondences.
• Toomey, Deirdre. ‘'Worst Part of Life’: Yeats’s Horoscopes for Olivia Shakespear.’ Yeats Annual, No. 6, ed. Warwick Gould, 1988, pp. 222-226.
• Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P. ‘Ezra Pound’s Occult Education.’ Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 17, No. 1, Summer 1990, pp. 73-96. Deals with Pound’s association with Yeats.
• Weatherly, Joan. ‘Yeats, the Tarot, and the Fool.’ College Literature, Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter 1986, pp. 112-121.
• Wonham, Henry B. ‘'Natural and Supernatural with the Self-same Ring are Wed’: Yeats, Balzac, and the Advantages of Monism.’ The Yeats Eliot Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 39-53.

• Allen, James Lovic. Book review of ‘The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats,’ by Graham Hough. Yeats Annual, No. 4, ed. Warwick Gould, 1986, pp. 265- 267.
• Endo, Paul. Book review of ‘The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult,’ by Leon Surette. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1, Winter 1994, pp. 167-168.
• Gilbert, R. A. Book review of ‘British Poets and Secret Societies,’ by Marie Roberts. Yeats Annual, No. 6, ed. Warwick Gould, 1988, pp. 290-293.
• Gould, Warwick. Book review of ‘The Alchemist of the Golden Dawn: the Letters of the Revd. W. A. Ayton to F. L. Gardner and Others, 1886- 1905,’ ed. Ellic Howe. Yeats Annual, No. 5, ed. Warwick Gould, 1987, pp. 279-280.
• Harden, E. F. Book review of ‘The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult,’ by Leon Surette. Choice, Vol. 31, No. 1, September 1993, p. 125.
• Harper, George Mills. Book review of ‘British Poets and Secret Societies,’ by Marie Roberts. Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Vol. VI, ed. Richard J. Finneran, 1988, pp. 313-314.
• Harper, George Mills. Book review of ‘The Golden Dawn Companion,’ by R. A. Gilbert. Yeats Annual, No. 7, ed. Warwick Gould, 1990, pp. 262- 263.
• Harper, George Mills. Book review of ‘Yeats the Initiate,’ by Kathleen Raine. Yeats Annual, No. 7, ed. Warwick Gould, 1990, pp. 263-266.
• Harper, George Mills. Book review of ‘The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats,’ by Graham Hough. Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Vol. IV, ed. Richard J. Finneran, 1986.
• Howe, Ellic. Book review of ‘The Golden Dawn: Twilight of the Magicians,’ by R. A. Gilbert. Yeats Annual, No. 3, ed. Warwick Gould, 1985, pp. 276- 278.
• Neill, Edward. Book review of ‘Yeats’s Golden Dawn,’ by George Mills Harper. Times Educational Supplement, No. 3736, Feb. 5, 1988, p. 27.
• Olney, James. Book review of ‘Yeats the Initiate,’ by Kathleen Raine. Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Vol. VII, ed. Richard J. Finneran, 1989, pp. 249-254.
• Sheppard, Richard. Book review of ‘The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult,’ by Leon Surette. Journal of European Studies, Vol. 24, No. 94, June 1994, pp. 169-170.
• Torchiana, Donald T. Book review of ‘W. B. Yeats: The Occult and Philosophical Backgrounds,’ ed. T. R. Spivey. Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Vol. I, ed. Richard J. Finneran, 1983, pp. 221-226.
• Wollaeger, Mark A. Book review of ‘The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult,’ by Leon Surette. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 93, No. 3, July 1994, pp. 465- 469.

• Breidenbach, Kathleen Patricia. ‘Patterns Upon a Persian Carpet: Symbolism and Occult Ritual in the Plays of W. B. Yeats.’ State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1992, UMI No. 9310004.
• Eaves, Gregory Nigel. ‘Figures of the Imagination: a Yeatsian Noumenology.’ University of California, Davis, 1989. UMI No. 9002733.
• Fennelly, Laurence William. ‘S. L. MacGregor Mathers and the Fiction of W. B. Yeats.’ Florida State University, 1973. UMI No. 7330279.
• Flannery, Mary Catherine. ‘Yeats and Magic: the Earlier Works.’ Indiana University, 1973. UMI No. 7407009.
• Gerety, Jane. ‘Poetry and Magic: A Study of Yeats’s Poems of Meditation.’ University of Michigan, 1982. UMI No. 8304494.
• Gorski, William Thomas. ‘Yeats and Alchemy.’ University of Maryland College Park, 1989. UMI No. 8924155.
• Havredaki, Irene Georgiou. ‘In Search of a Common Myth: Influences of Mysticism and Occultism in W. B. Yeats 'A Vision.’’ University of Connecticut, 1991. UMI No. 9128849.
• Heim, William James. ‘Aleister Crowley and W. B. Yeats: A Study in Magic and Art.’ Indiana University, 1974. UMI No. 7509020.
• Kalogera, Lucy Shepherd. ‘Yeats’s Celtic Mysteries.’ Florida State University, 1977.
• Meggison, Lauren Louise. ‘Keepers of the Flame: Hermeticism in Yeats, H.D., and Borges.’ University of California, Irvine, 1987. UMI No. 8710250.
• Schuchard, Marsha Keith Manatt. ‘Freemasonry, Secret Societies, and the Continuity of the Occult Traditions in English Literature.’ University of Texas at Austin, 1975. UMI No. 7524957.
• Segrest, Mabelle Massey. ‘The Tree of Life in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats.’ Duke University, 1979. UMI No. 8008193.