I live in the village where Yeats lived as a teenager and where Maud his lover also lived, he wrote lots of poems about her. There is a plaque in front of his house. The name of the village is Howth, where I am a tour Guide.

my father was irish from co.laois, on his gravestone are the words. and peace comes dropping slow. lovely

I was working in a butcher shop just outside of Buffalo NY. My employer and his son were Polish immigrants. My parents came from Ireland. Thinking me arrogant, Vic Jr reeled off many accomplishments of the Polish people. What did the Irish ever do...he asked. I was 17 and had no ready answer. I went home asked me dad, he said we were great talkers...My mother grabbed a book of poems by Yeats and asked me to read them. I was hooked. Vic Jr, he had a point, So I asked him to name all the Polish Presidents of the US...I told him the Irish were dreamers. All the butchers in the shop were Polish Jews that survived the second world war. Strange place Buffalo.

Very touching, the moving music and touching photography and your charming accent adds to the glow that remains William Butler Yeats. Thank you very much, Geraldine

I enjoyed this very much. The Isle of Innisfree has been my favorite poem for many years.

Henry VIII did not leave the Roman Church to divorce Anne Boleyn. The woman he divorced was Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne Boleyn -- whom he subsequently beheaded.

Yeats, how I love him. ❤️

I've adored Yeats' poetry for forty years. You do such a lovely job with this. Balanced, deeply insightful and your reading voice is utterly mesmerizing. Thank you.

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thank you so much for your excellent documentaries.

My favorite poet ever

There's an anecdote I heard once recounted by O'Casey in an interview. As his play was being hooted down by the outraged audience, Yeats stood up and bellowed "This is Mr. O'Casey's apotheosis!" which shut everyone up. Though certainly grateful, O'Casey said he had to look up "apotheosis" later at home.

"it is highly unlikely that the gifted family he came from could be anything else but (protestant)". What a remark..

Wonderful, Malcom. . It provides a broad l overview which makes understanding this literary genius ever more possible. Thank you.

Totally superb !!!! Thank you so much.......from Brisbane Australia

Beautifully done. I have always admired his work and this was an excellent and balanced appraisal of his times.

W.B.Yeats' poetic style is fantastic.

Very interesting, and beautifully narrated. Thank you.

Such an insight into the myth of modern ireland -Thanks once again!

Really beautiful.

So interesting, and so well done

Thank you so well told and filmed.

I really enjoy your videos although it would be really nice and helpful if you could kindly add subtitles for better understanding.

Yeats didn't care for the direction that T.S. Eliot was taking poetry.

I agree with the comments pointing out factual mistakes & mispronunciations of names & places & gratuitous unpleasant remarks about Ireland & the Irish. The most remarkable comment was near the end when the claim is made that Irish people weren’t capable of grasping the significance of Yeats or understanding him properly. I have to say it is the author of the script who is ignorant with respect to Ireland & the standard of education & intelligence of Irish people.

i adored Yeats' poetry it was really beautiful and unique i love my twizzy king

Very, very interesting

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Watched the first 3 minutes - a few corrections - 1. the Irish language is Gaelic, not Gallic; 2. their is no Church of England in Ireland - there is the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland (protestant); 3. it is not that Catholics were not admitted to Trinity (where I went to college), but that the Catholic Church forbade Catholics to go there.

An excellent biographical review . A younger Daniel D lewis would have been ideally casted as Yeats in a biopic . PS : alas poor A Boleyn was not accorded the luxury of a divorce .

It isn't HOWth. It's HOEth. The native language of Ireland is Irish, not Gaelic. It's USH-een, not OY-shin. It's BOLya's Strand, not BAYL's.

Howth is pronounced to rhyme with both.

No mention of Ezra Pound?

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How did he make his money? Did he have a regular income?

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I always wondered what he looked like.

Gallic? Poetess? Anne Boleyn? Mild howlers, for me. Also, rather binary to call Yeats a Protestant (as if only that or RC) when he held no Christian beliefs at all, but rather animatedly, anti-Christian ones.

Hi everyone. I aspire to win Nobel Prize in Literature like Yeats. How can I get that. Please suggest me 😊🌹.

2:40 it was a language that was forced upon the people

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And no way bohemian, why not !

It would have been very helpful if the narrator had taken the time to learn the correct pronunciation of Irish places.

IS HE BEING CONDECENDING?

Henry VIII broke away from Roman Chirch because he wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon, not Anne Boleyn.

No. It's not the nature of religions to think they are right and everyone else is wrong, it's the nature of Abrahamic religions to believe that. Most religions are fairly tolerant, especially pagan ones.

Henry the 8th wanted to divorce Catherine that is when he separated from the Catholic Church, he had Anne Boleyn beheaded

Henry 8th wanted to divorce Katherine his first (Catholic) wife in order to marry Anne Bolyn.

Mis-pronounced HOWTH = Ho+th. Oisin = U + sheen. On Baaile's Strand = Bwa + lya. The Great Vowel shift did not reach the Irish Language! = o/w Gay + lick (Gaelic). British actors and scholars tend to these gross mistakes. Oisin = OO + sheen. Alas

You attempt to sound learned but you mispronounce every Irish location. I’m sure Yates would turn in his grave to listen to you. The British do their best but fail so terribly at saying Irish names and places. It’s an insult. Please do not discuss what you cannot say.