W. B. Yeats is best known as the poet of romantic Ireland and his lyric poetry has become part of our common language. In the week that sees the 50th anniversary of his death, Bookmark presents a major film biography of the man many consider to be this century's greatest poet in English. < Shot in the timeless Irish landscapes of Sligo and j Galway, the film draws on the unique testimony of Michael and Anne Yeats , the poet's son and daughter, as well as contributions from Seamus Heaney ,
Conor Cruise O'Brien , Denis Donoghue , Francis Stuart and others to produce a full portrait of Yeats not only as poet, son, father, lover, but also as literary nationalist, a towering figure in the cultural and political movements which led to the founding of the Irish Free State.
Produced and directed by SEAN O MORDHA