1. Alisa Marko: Guest Lecture William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1939) “The greatest poet of our time, certainly the greatest poet in this language, and, so far as I can tell, in any language.” ~T.S. Eliot

2. The Lake Isle of Innisfree Sligo, Ireland

3. Founds Dublin Hermetic Society, 1885 The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889 Founds National Literary Society, 1891 Founds National (Abbey) Theater, 1897 Consciousness is Conflict: Maud Gonne marries MacBride, 1903 Easter Rebellion, 1916 Marries Georgiana Hyde-Lees, 1917; begins automatic writing that leads to A Vision, 1926 Serves as Irish Senator, 1922-1928 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1923 Purgatory written and performed, 1938

4. Maud Gonne (left) and Georgiana Hyde-Lees

5. From A Vision

6. Byzantium

7. From Boston College Magazine, Winter 2001 “An Old Fool” http://www.bc.edu/publications/bcm/winter_2001/ll_yeats.html