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.
예이츠 및 관련 분야에 대한 회원들의 학문 발전을 도모하고 연구 의욕을 고취시키기 위해 다음과 같은 일을 기획하고 수행함을 그 목적으로 한다.
1) 학술 발표회 및 세미나 개최
2) 학술 정보의 수집과 자료 교환
3) 연구논문집 『한국예이츠저널』(The Yeats Journal of Korea) 발간
4) 회원 상호간의 학문적 교류와 친목 도모