The Wild Swans at Coole W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic. He was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival, and was co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. He …

Coole Park, in Co. Galway, was the home of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats’ friend and patron. Yeats proposed to her once more. Once more, she refused. Yeats was in low spirits when he …

In readying a Blunden prints fragments either parallel book for publication, he looked forward with "Strange Meeting" "or at length to reaching the imaginations of his readers interwoven with it" …

Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon …

"The Wild Swans at Coole" consists of five sestets (six-line stanzas). Though each stanza includes the same number of lines, variations in meter and line length keep the poem …

To our children, Lucien, Simon, and Madeleine, who are growing up in a new materialist world, and to Shirley Margaret Coole (1923–2009) and Michèle A. Moriarty (1952–2009), who did not …

The Wild Swans At Coole THE trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the …