A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...

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was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.

From W.B. Yeats to James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, there is more than enough material from the most talented Irish writers to ensure you have a romantic message for that special someone on February ...

Joseph Hassett’s W.B. Yeats and the Muses is a magnificent achievement. What he demonstrates with clarity, discretion and profound insight is that Yeats is a consummate poet of love. In ...

Many people around the globe are aware of William Butler Yeats the first Irish Nobel Prize winner for Literature. Yet, for all of his work the great man depended and relied upon a ‘great’ woman.

Stevens is hardly alone in his poetic end-of-life musings. His contemporary, the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion ...

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.

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death - CCEA In this poem by W B Yeats an Irish airman weighs up his reasons for fighting the enemy during World War One.

A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...