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What else have I to spur me into song?” (VP591). The continuity Yeats asserts here is both genuine and false. If we turn from this poem to the early poetry expecting to see the young Yeats lusting and ...

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, who ...

The birth date of William Butler Yeats is being commemorated in Sligo by poetry readings Report shows a man reading poetry in graveyard at Drumcliff where William Butler Yeats is buried.

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 ...

In order to reframe the questions that arise from his encounter with the Gitanjali, Yeats does subtly undermine the dichotomy ...

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 ...

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.

“Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote WH Auden in his 1939 poem In Memory of WB Yeats. The Tasmanian-born author Richard Flanagan has always been amused by the way this phrase is often read as a ...