The Happiest of the Poets

W. B. Yeats for and against William Morris

W. B. Yeats’s association with the English designer, poet, and socialist William Morris lasted from 1887 to 1890, during which time the young Irish poet attended Sunday lectures Morris delivered to a group of mostly self-educated workingmen and would-be revolutionaries in Hammersmith, West London. Morris’s influence on Yeats took many forms, including b…