WASHINGTON — From Brussels to Boise, President Joe Biden has relied on the same line of Irish poetry to talk about a changing world. Biden has quoted “Easter, 1916” by W.B. Yeats seven times since ...

November 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous and influential poems of the 20th century. It is titled “The Second Coming.” It was written in 1919 by the Irish ...

The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the community to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at a free poetry event on Tuesday, March 17 at 8 p.m., featuring Cranford poet John McDermott. McDermott will read ...

Parallel to his life’s work as a lyric poet, William Butler Yeats was active on several tracks. Though he was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy, he organized opposition to the British ...

New York. The Macmillan Company. 12mo. xiii+362pp. $2.50. YEATS is inextricably associated in our hearts with Synge and Dunsany and Pearse and MacDonagh and Plunkett and the Celtic Revival and the ...

An Appointment With Mr. Yeats to be released March 26, 2013 on Proper American DUBLIN, Ireland — In what stands as one of the boldest, most ambitious projects of his storied career, Waterboys auteur ...

Let's be honest. No listener can truly claim to have a working knowledge of and appreciation for all kinds of music. It's exceedingly rare to get a person who is an equally massive fan of Bulgarian ...

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved ...

MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...

A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love ...

From Brussels to Boise, President Joe Biden has relied on the same line of Irish poetry to talk about a changing world. Biden has quoted “Easter, 1916” by W.B. Yeats seven times since June, according ...