The Magic of Yeats Background, some interpretation, some poetry. Painting Portraits with Words Students examine how an exhibition of an author's writings can become a portrait or biography of that author by first learning about an exhibit on William Butler Yeats and what it reflects about this famous poet.
Students then work in small groups, analyzing various poems by Yeats using varied written forms.
A Terrible Beauty is Born Biography and related links from the New York Times Archives. This page updated May 1, 2001.