William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died on this day in 1939. Editor's Note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his ...

It was billed as a play by W.B. Yeats, but Lady Gregory had written large parts of it. Most of the dialogue had been hers, while Yeats (who had been inspired with the idea in a dream) wrote the ...

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 ...

His contemporary, the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his ...

The second event in the series, on January 29, focused on W.B. Yeats with literary critic and cultural historian Lauren Arrington, author of the 2010 book W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, ...

James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett - their images are iconic when we think of rich Irish literary tradition. Notably, they are all men. Not as easily recognized are ...

Declan Foley, formerly of Sligo, now Secretary of The Yeats Society of Victoria, Australia, gives his thoughts on the proposal W.B. Yeats. Scanned from the NPA collection The final resting place ...

Famous literary locations in Ireland include a section of Co Sligo known as 'Yeat's Country', named after W.B. Yeats, as well ...