The complete online text of The Land of Heart's Desire by William Butler Yeats.

William Butler Yeats, probably the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and certainly one of its most complex men, was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount on 13 June 1865. He was the eldest of the four surviving children, all brilliant, of a...

William Butler Yeats , probably the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and certainly one of its most complex men, was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount on 13 June 1865. He was the eldest of the four surviving children, all brilliant, of a...

Although the reputation of William Butler Yeats rests primarily on his poetry, the drama remained one of the central concerns throughout his long career. As he explained in 1917, "I need a theatre; I believe myself to be a dramatist; I desire to show eve...

Books on business history rarely sell unless they can produce the Decameron-like qualities of Wall Street in the 1980s, and intellectual histories die on the shelves. If I tell you that William Leach's Land of Desire also has a dust jacket that reproduces...

The village of South Barrington is now a step closer to acquiring some highly-desired land for preservation, and toward achieving the ultimate goal of creating bike and walking paths through several nature preserves. "It is a top priority to acquire land," Village...