Dec 28, 2009
William Butler Yeats (yayts) was the son of John Butler Yeats, an artist of considerable merit who had given up a moderately lucrative law practice in order to devote himself to painting. His mother was a frail, beautiful woman who nurtured in her son a deep love for the “west country” of Ireland that was to last all his life. His early childhood and later vacations were spent there, among the green hills and lakes of Sligo which were to become, in such poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” a symbol of his imaginative escape from the disappointments and unpleasant realities of...
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