Michael Robartes And The Dancer by W. B. Yeats
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ePublished by
October 2019
Originally published 1920
Poetry
Author: William Butler Yeats
ePublished by
October 2019
Originally published 1920
Poetry
Author: William Butler Yeats
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...” Such was the apocalyptic observation of William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865–28 January 1939), Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, as he observed the horror and inhumanity of World War I and its aftermath, as well as the failed, concurrent Easter Rising in his own Ireland.
Originally published in 1920 after he had entered his mystical phase but before he had become a two-term senator of the Irish Free State, this little volume of poetry, Michael Robartes And The Dancer, is a reflection of the times, of Yeats’s personal life, and of his submersion into the occultish philosophy he was formulating from his communication with spirits and “instructor” guides through automatic writing.
Originally published in 1920 after he had entered his mystical phase but before he had become a two-term senator of the Irish Free State, this little volume of poetry, Michael Robartes And The Dancer, is a reflection of the times, of Yeats’s personal life, and of his submersion into the occultish philosophy he was formulating from his communication with spirits and “instructor” guides through automatic writing.