“He has felt something in the depth of his mind and he wants to make it as visible and powerful to our senses as possible.”
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…