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 ...

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Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.

Yeats published ... has put it 'this was poetry as political manifesto' and with its aggressive timing but also its high tone of superiority bound to raise hackles. William Martin Murphy, the ...