The Words Upon the WindowpaneWords upon the Window Pane, first staged in 1930, is W. B. Yeats's most powerful and brilliant dramatic exploration of the occult, in which he had a lifelong interest, and an affirmation of Anglo Irish Protestant cultural ascendancy. Written at Lady Gregory's Coole Park estate, it features a sance in which Jonathan Swift's voice is projected through a medium. Like Yeats, Swift was both politician and poet, and taking Swift as his subject allowed Yeats