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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.

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.

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 ...

From Oscar Wilde to WB Yeats and a little bit of Gaeilge - some ... Infusing your vows with the charm of Irish poetry pays homage to a rich literary tradition while adding depth and meaning ...