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William Butler Yeats, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, was born in Ireland 150 years ago this week, and across the country, the Irish are celebrating with public readings and festivals.

Reviewed Work: The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats, Peter Allt, Russell K. Alspach Having never missed an issue in more than a century, the Sewanee Review is the oldest ...

RECENT celebrations of the great Irish poet W B Yeats (1865-1939) have included a fascinating appreciation of his life and work by Bob Geldof on BBC4. Here are two of Yeats’s short but best known ...

A poor student who never went to university, only to painting school, William Butler Yeats professed a scorn for scholarship. Nonetheless, he became an active critic. Financial need motivated much of ...

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. We're about ...

In his 1892 poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats fantasizes about a life lived in solitude on an island in Lough Gill in Ireland, where the poet spent his summers as a child. Earlier this year, as a ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, William Butler Yeats’s childhood summers spent with relatives in Sligo had a formative influence on the poet for the remainder of his life. The otherworldliness of ...

Perfection of the life or of the work? The correspondence between W.B. Yeats and his wife George shows the complexities of art and life entwined. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age ...