William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The...
Reading Yeats in the Age of Trump from Boston Review. Like many of you, I have spent the days since the election in a combination of frantic distraction; intermittent, flailing activism; attempts to focus on my private and professional life; and fear.
Yeats could apply that same laser-like intelligence to public affairs that he applied to his poetry or drama, and he laid down arguments that are vital to our current National Cultural Policy
Recent revelations that WB Yeats’s remains still reside on the French Riviera where he was first buried, and not in County Sligo, continue a tradition of tussles over the ownership of writers’ relics“Who rests under Ben Bulben?
The poet W.B. Yeats was born 150 years ago this week. In rural Ireland, a nun whose family has a personal history with the poet has turned a one-room schoolhouse into a small Yeats museum.
As Ireland prepares to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats on June 13th, RTÉ has announced a range of programming to mark the birth of one of Ireland’s greatest artists. Noel Curran, Director-General, RTÉ, says: “The 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats provides …
Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall pay homage during visit to Co Sligo in Ireland, but Nobel laureate’s remains may have been mixed up with others’
At a recent meeting organised by UCD at Newman House, Senator Susan O'Keeffe, chair of Yeats150, said that during this year of the celebrating of WB Yeats, the poet should also be chall
Almost 30 years ago, my Mum wrote a book about WB Yeats with her friend Catherine Sweeney. She was shocked at how little my siblings and I knew about Yeats and decided to "fix it&q
His influence on today’s writers may be as great as Shakespeare’s. Jane Ciabattari explains how WB Yeats still shapes the English language – 150 years later.
If there were no Maud Gonne, Yeats would have invented her, requiring, like most poets in the Romantic and Celtic traditions, a Muse, an enchantress, a femme fatale...
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