If the connection from Kleist and Hoffmann to Frost could be traced through idealist and dark romantic leads, Yeats's part in the same legacy, and specifically the English variety, takes shape in relation to two main influences: William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-nineteenth century. In the following, I will first tease out the significance of these influences for Yeats and then go on to read the Modernist streaks of his 1916 poem "The Magi', the analysis of which occupies this chapter.