“Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from every abstract thing, from all that is of the brain only.”
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…