A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...

There he would work immediately on a new poem: A prayer - A prayer for his daughter. George, baby and W.B. Yeats were no sooner settled in their rented home, Dundrum Lodge, than husband and wife ...

The poems and plays that resulted from this experience ... decrepitude of the body and death itself. Joseph Hassett’s W.B. Yeats and the Muses is a magnificent achievement.

There are perhaps no more cited words of poetry, at least poetry of a genuinely high order, than the opening stanza of W. B. Yeats’s haunting 1919 poem “The Second Coming.” ...

Roy Foster on WB Yeats and Thoor Ballylee ... “I declare this tower is my symbol,” he wrote in the poem Blood and the Moon, in his collection The Winding Stair and Other Poems.