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 ...

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 ...

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 ...