William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three ... stand out with poignant emphasis. The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) opens:— On the other hand he could celebrate Irish salus, virtus, as ...

The following day, Yeats, wife and baby were to move together ... at the reception of his new book of poetry The Wild Swans of Coole earlier that year, Lady Gregory had told him it was his own ...