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 ...

His grandfather William Butler Yeats (1806-1862 ... the Yeats children ever set foot in what is today titled 'Pollexfen House' in Wine Street, Sligo. Grandfather Pollexfen was not the kind ...

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was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.