history must also note that William Butler Yeats became enamored of nationalist authoritarian movements, including fascism. He said admiring things about Mussolini and eugenics. He wrote a few ...

So here, under airtight, light-shielding glass, is a notebook given to William ... paintings by Yeats (he was briefly an art student) and by his accomplished father, John Butler Yeats, and brother ...

William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets. He is still writing ... and insipid vein made famous by Tom Moore, was filled, as has been ...

Wilde’s fellow Irishman — poet William Butler Yeats — agreed ... which form and content are indivisible, a quest he immortalized in the famous rhetorical question, “How can we know ...

William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died on this day in 1939. Editor's Note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — A quote often attributed to poet William Butler Yeats does not appear in his published writing or letters. President Barack Obama and California Gov. Jerry Brown are ...

I had a short poem by William Butler Yeats pretty ... sure it wasn't what Yeats wrote. “Glory” made some sense, and had the right rhythm, but it did not sound right: He has had enough of ...

Today he is an authority on the poetry of William Butler Yeats ... As it happens, Yeats’ most famous poem, “The Second Coming,” was written in 1919 amid the scourge of the Spanish flu ...

The Atlantic Monthly May 1938 William Butler Yeats by Louise Bogan WILLIAM Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets.He is still writing, and the ...