Poetry News

Yeats on his deathbed

Originally Published: August 11, 2010

For all of you in County Sligo, there is now on display at Countess Constance Markievicz's ancestral house a rare photograph of Yeats on his deathbed:

The picture of the dying poet, taken by his wife George days before his death in 1939, shows Yeats lying on a bed, a white cat sitting on his knee.