Ambitious heart: The subtle eloquence of Yeats the poet

In a little over a month's time, June 13th, the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats takes place. Focussing on the anniversary day though, or even on the 150 years that separate us from his birth in Sandymount in south County Dublin, might well obscure the fundamental point about when he was born - 1865. The Dublin in which he grew up, along with his family life moving between Dublin, London and Sligo, is in a sense ancient history. WB Yeats belongs to another time.