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William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died on this day in 1939.
Editor's note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his later years, he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. ....
W.B. Yeats and his muses: with his wife, George Hyde-Lees; Olivia Shakespear; Maud Gonne; Iseult Gonne. By James Flannery, Contributor ℘℘℘ It will come as no surprise to admirers of W.B. Yeats that this greatest of modern poets was a celebrant of the art of love from the beginning to the end of his long and immensely productive career. But now, thanks to a brilliant and magisterial work of scholarship by Joseph M. Hassett, we can fully appreciate how much Yeats owed to the women in his life – nine women, to be precise, whose alluring mystery held him in thrall and inspired in him the heightened state of consciousness he believed necessary for creative expression. ....