The second was the controversy over the Abbey production of The Playboy of the Western World - 'there were reasons for ...

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 ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as one of the most significant poets of the past century. And yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out ...

Few modern writers have had careers as long, varied, and complex as W. B. Yeats. Born in 1865, he produced works that arguably belong to each of three major literary historical periods or traditions: ...

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, ...

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 ...

Irish author William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature on November 14, 1923. We take a look at Yeats' life. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats ...

Yeats lived during a period of great change in his native country as it fought to achieve full independence from Britain. At this time, many Irishmen were fighting for Britain in World War One. In ...