In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made" I'd had the picture in my mind forever, that is ever since I first read William Butler Yeats' famous poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." It was ...

William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a hundred years ago, when the world seemed on the verge. Perhaps like now, perhaps like many years. The losses of the First World War were still ...