THE VISIONARY PAST: YEATS’S TREATMENT OF HISTORY& MYTHS

History and Mythology plays a vital role to introduce human culture and legacy. The vastness of it takes a bold plunge in the world of Literature also. This paper pertinently deals with William Butler Yeats’s treatment of history and myth. His observation and explanation of and implementation of the both in his poems. It opens up the contemporary and the ancient socio-political, economical and all other aspect. Yeats set a foot on the shore of Irish Isles and the other in the sea of Greco-Roman legends. His poems leave a deep impact on the readers as they are intense and realistic