News at Eleven: To his [William Butler Yeats'] delight

and enchantment, the communicators of [his wife] George revealed to him that the moment of sexual union was a portal to knowledge of the spiritual world--a knowledge that carried with it a metaphorical language rooted in a belief system of stunning power and richness.

Some 3600 pages of the automatic writings dictated over a five-year period to George by her ghostly messengers provide a tangible record of this strange but highly productive Yeatsian encounter with a Muse in the form of his own wife. The poems and plays that resulted from this experience represent the most significant transformation and growth of his entire career and include such masterpieces of literary modernism as Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) with "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming" and "A Prayer for My Daughter" as well as The Tower (1928) containing "Sailing to Byzantium," "Meditations in Time of Civil War," "Leda and the Swan" and "Among Schoolchildren."

from Irish Central: W.B. Yeats and the Muses

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