[ noun ] Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939) <noun.person>
The answer lies with William Butler Yeats: The center hasn't held.
A notebook in which William Butler Yeats wrote much of his poetry and prose over three years sold at Sotheby's for $360,000, the auctioneers said.
He's a soft-spoken, sensitive-looking war hero who quotes Yeats and dates actress Debra Winger, raises money by the bushel and has a 75 percent-plus approval rating in a conservative Republican state.
Yeats said the worst are full of a passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.
William Butler Yeats, who wrote the introduction to the English translation of the "Gitanjali," said he discovered in Tagore a world that he had always dreamed about, but never encountered, in the West.
George Moore also appears as an early supporter and then a dissenter. Not all of Yeats's heroines at this time came out of Celtic mythology.
Painted during the Second World War, it was the closest Yeats ever came to a direct political statement. More typical of the late manner is 'Come' in which a farmer stretches out his arms beckoning a horse towards him.
In 1922 her house in Dublin was raided by the Black and Tans. All her papers were destroyed including her letters from Yeats. Those letters are missing links in this otherwise wonderfully complete edition.
Ms. Souhami said in an interview that from letters she found among Ms. Gluck's papers, it appeared that Georgie had Yeats buried in a cemetery in Roquebrune, southern France, believing the grave would be left intact for 10 years.
"Miss Davis wrote poetry on the screen like Yeats might write," he said.
All the pieces will be making their debuts in Carnegie except for Sir Michael Tippett's setting of poems by William Butler Yeats for soprano Jessye Norman and the Chicago Symphony.
I cannot help wondering if perhaps Markham, like W.B. Yeats, went on revising his works after they were published.
Letters to the young Joyce show Yeats offering advice and practical help when Joyce came to London, although Joyce had poured scorn on the theatre when he was still in Dublin.
They are two principally different things." EDITOR'S NOTE _ Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats died in the South of France in l939, but World War II delayed the return of his remains to Ireland for almost a decade.