William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets. He is still writing, and the poems which now appear, usually embedded in short plays or set ...

The Center Did Not Hold About 100 years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” which has become ...

Yeats published ... has put it 'this was poetry as political manifesto' and with its aggressive timing but also its high tone of superiority bound to raise hackles. William Martin Murphy, the ...

Yeats published ... has put it 'this was poetry as political manifesto' and with its aggressive timing but also its high tone of superiority bound to raise hackles. William Martin Murphy, the ...

The poet William Butler Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.

What are you reading during the pandemic? We've been asking that question to a range of writers and they've responded with suggestions for fantasy, poetry, new fiction, old fiction, web comics, fairy ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in June 1865, five of Ireland's leading cultural figures reflect on their relationship with the poet, dramatist and prose writer William Butler Yeats.

and William Butler Yeats, Nobel prize-winning poet. But what of their sisters, the forgotten Yeats women? Sisters Elizabeth and Lily Yeats share a fleeting derogatory reference in James Joyce's ...

In the early years of the 20th century, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats experimented with automatic ...