William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy ... and the loss of much political hope thereby, threw the national consciousness violently back on itself. Yeats has described the situation (he ...
“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw ... Irish Studies Program Director Geraldine Higgins, curator of the National Library of Ireland’s “Seamus Heaney: ...
The poet William Butler Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.