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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: Michael Robartes And The Dancer

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Michael Robartes And The Dancer

Introduction:

This rather brief volume of 1921 nevertheless contains several of Yeats'
most famous poems and was written when the poet was at the height of his
mature powers. Marriage, as we have seen, released much of Yeats' creative
energy,providing him -through A Vision - with new "metaphors" for poetry and
freeing him from the by now rather barren subject of his "barren passion" for
Maud Gonne. Of course Yeats did continue to write some verses in which the now
widowed Madame MacBride appeared, but the days of ...

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