Michael Robartes and the Dancer William Butler Yeats

Since 1801, Ireland was under British control due to the abolition of the Irish Parliament by the United Kingdom. Several uprisings had been attempted during the reign of the British, but none of them were necessarily note-worthy until Easter...

Yeats’s “The Second Coming” continues the age-old tradition of man’s vague plea for annihilation and subsequent rebirth. Whether in religious doctrine, political theory, or artistic movement, there seems to exist a very human desire for second...