In October 1913, W. B. Yeats published privately through his sisters’ Cuala Press 50 copies of Poems Written in Discouragement, 1912-1913. This book gathered together the poems inspired by the ...

In October 1913, W. B. Yeats published privately through his sisters’ Cuala Press 50 copies of Poems Written in Discouragement, 1912-1913. This book gathered together the poems inspired by the ...

William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three ... working as a journalist in London. His best-known early poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," came to his mind in a London street, and expressed ...

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

which would probably remain obscure in the best of productions, are all too apparent in the present performance. Through the use of symbol-studded poetry, music, and dancing, Yeats tried to build ...