“No one who likes Yeats is capable of human intimacy,” declares a character in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, quoted somewhat tongue-in-cheek by Joseph Hassett in this subtle and often ...

In times of political upheaval, the poetry of WB Yeats is frequently quoted, particularly The Second Coming, with its very repeatable and malleable line: “The centre cannot hold”. Leo Varadkar quoted ...

I first heard WB Yeats’s poetry spoken aloud not by the reedy-voiced poet himself intoning on an early recording, or by a teacher at high school or a friend at university, but on an album that ...

William Butler Yeats, the greatest star in the 20th century sky of literature, was at the same time a poet, dramatist, Irish Senator and active organizer. A Nobel laureate of 1923, Yeats, the 'last ...

In October 1913, W. B. Yeats published privately through his sisters’ Cuala Press 50 copies of Poems Written in Discouragement, 1912-1913. This book gathered together the poems inspired by the ...

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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 ...

Mike Scott continues a decades-long love affair with the words of Irish poet WB Yeats on An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, an album of brilliant, mystical music worthy of Yeats’s immortal words. I bought ...

A selection of WB Yeats' poems, including September 1913 and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, have been set to music on The Waterboys' new album, An Appointment with Mr Yeats. The band's frontman, ...

The poetry of WB Yeats is to be set to music by The Waterboys for a series of concerts at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Musician and Waterboys frontman Mike Scott has crafted the songs for a series of ...