“I have never been quite certain that one should be more than an artist, that even patriotism is more than an impure desire in an artist.”
About William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939
William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 at Sandymount, County Dublin, and died on 28 January 1939 at Menton, France. During the seventy-three years between those dates, he became not merely Ireland’s most internationally celebrated modern poet but one of the major writers in English. Poet, dramatist, essayist…