William Butler Yeats ... and sea, and from its people, who still had Gaelic in their speech and legends in their memory, he drew the material of his early poetry. Yeats has told of the deep ...

A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...