William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets. He is still writing, and the poems which now appear, usually embedded in short plays or set ...

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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 ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as one of the most significant poets of the past century. And yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out ...