Selections from William Butler Yeats' poetry revealing an
autobiographical account of his sudden heart problem and severe
depression. Both my father and I loved poetry; we quoted it to each
other all the time.He had racks of it on his bookshelves and delighted
in showing me the beauty and honesty of the mere arrangement of words.
When I began to systematically read the later poetry of William Butler
Yeats I was looking for the story of his extra-marital lover, a young
Catholic woman who gave birth to his first beloved son. But she was
murdered and he had to abandon his son. I found everything I was looking
for right here in the poetry.