What topics did william butler yeats write about?
http://www.wikipedia.org Yeats was first and primarily a writer of things Irish. His early poems were about Irish myth and folklore. A bit later in life Yeats wrote about contemporary issues. Still later he wrote about spiritualism and metaphysics. (you may have to look up a few words here) As Yeats himself wrote, “If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book (he much admired William Blake)…The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.” It has been said that Yeats “adopted many different idealogical positions” in his writing. One critic, Michael Valdez Moses, stated of Yeats that he picked up “those of nationalist, classical liberal, reactionary conservative and millenarian nihilist” positions in writing. Yet Yeats had a life-long interest in mysticism, spiritualism, occultism and astrology. He wrote many things for and about his cou
