William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three ... possessed with people he knew intimately," he would go to a strange house "for a wretched hour for schooling's sake." And because he wished ...

William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died on this day in 1939. Editor's Note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his ...

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was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.