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Ireland's magician.(On Poetry)(William Butler Yeats )(Biography)

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From: The New Leader
Date: 20030901
Author:Pettingell, Phoebe

WHILE THE REPUTATIONS of most 20th-century bards wax and wane, William Butler Yeats continues to enthrall read and biographers. We study and quote him--not only in poetic contexts but in political speeches, editorials, even sermons. In part, interest in him may endure because his oeuvre includes much more than poems. His plays helped to establish the Abbey Theater's renown, and one of them, At the Hawk's Well, actually sparked a political uprising. He founded literary movements and published influential reminiscences about the birth of modern Ireland, which he served as a senator. ...

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