A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...

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 ...

William Butler Yeats ... poems and in plays like "A Full Moon in March" which insists on an ideal of love that survives the decrepitude of the body and death itself. Joseph Hassett’s W.B ...

Roy Foster on WB Yeats and Thoor Ballylee ... visible to the passer-by.” Yeats first mentioned climbing “the narrow winding stair” in his poem In Memory of Major Robert Gregory, written ...