Until well into middle age, William Butler Yeats seems to have lived in a waking dream. His early poetry depends on artful haziness for its effect. “The silver apples of the moon” are not to be found ...

On W. B. Yeats: The Man & the Milieu by Keith Alldritt & W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865–1914, by R. F. Forster. The veils surrounding the twentieth century’s greatest poet, ...

First Irish Nobel Laureate, William Butler Yeats was an organic bridge between Orient and Western countries, and specifically between Indians and Irish which is quite amply manifested in his writings.

In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...

The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...

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Set in Sligo town, steeped in the history of Nobel Poet Laureate William Butler Yeats. The episode begins in Sligo town, steeped in the history of Nobel Poet Laureate William Butler Yeats. Yeats’ ...

THESE letters are so stimulating that one sits, pencil in hand, making frequent underlinings. They are the observations of a good man, a sound artist and critic, a rich mmd, a responsive heart. And ...

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US President Joe Biden referenced one of WB Yeats's most iconic poems while addressing US troops in the United Kingdom on Wednesday. The President was speaking to American troops stationed at the RAF ...

What happens when writers embrace artificial intelligence as their muse? By A.O. Scott Those who complete this year’s race in October will receive a medal that reads, “There are no strangers here; ...