Yeats, ‘Certain Noble Plays of Japan’, Essays ... Vintage Books/Random House, 1951), 36. This famous formulation is echoed by Seamus Heaney in defining poetry as ‘our imagination pressing back against ...
Even the famous last line ‘I saw ... There he would work immediately on a new poem: A prayer - A prayer for his daughter. George, baby and W.B. Yeats were no sooner settled in their rented ...
Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how poetry can also be a consolation for that turmoil. No list of famous poems ...
On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...
American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness" ...
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Ireland's first ever Olympic medal was won by a famous artist in an unlikely categoryThe name Yeats is synonymous with the arts in Ireland, but few people know that one of Ireland’s most famous artists ... a life in the arts, WB leaning heavily into poetry while Jack was a ...
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