Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park where he assembled this collection poetry. Literary scholar Daniel Tobin writes that Yeats was melancholy...
The Cutting Of An Agate
When I wrote the essay on Edmund Spenser the company of Irish players who have now their stage at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin had been founded, but gave as yet few performances in...
Reveries Over Childhood And Youth
Sometimes when I remember a relative that I have been fond of, or a strange incident of the past, I wander here and there till I have somebody to talk to. Presently I notice that...
Per Amica Silentia Lunae
You will remember that afternoon in Calvados last summer when your black Persian 'Minoulooshe,' who had walked behind us for a good mile, heard a wing flutter in a bramble-bush?...
The Land Of Heart's Desire
In this theatrical lament on age and thwarted aspirations, a faery child encounters the newlyweds Shawn and Mary Bruin at their home, shared with Maurteen Bruin and Bridget Bruin,...
The Unicorn From The Stars And Other Plays
A youth has visions which eventually bring him into conflict with the Crown. He goes into a trance and experiences heavenly visions until two policemen arrive to arrest him. A...
The Celtic Twilight
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision...
The Celtic Twilight
William Butler Yeats ( 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.Rooted in myth, occult mysteries, and...
In The Seven Woods
In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age is a collection of poems by W. B. Yeats in which he eschewed his previous Romantic ideals and preference for...
