Adolf Hitler was a fascist, Joseph Stalin a totalitarian, and the famous Irish poet, William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865-1939) was both. In his essay, Passion and Cunning: An Essay on the Politics of W. B. Yeats (1965), Irish politician and historian Conor Cruise O’Brien exposed Yeats’ darker thoughts by analyzing his poetry, essays, letters, […]