A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...

Rising of 1916 against British rule in Ireland has both political and literary significance. It marked one of the foundational moments in European history that led to the liberation of the Irish state ...

ABSTRACT: W. B. Yeats's understanding of Chinese arts and poetics is best presented in his poem “Lapis Lazuli,” in which he parallels European arts and Chinese arts, displaying a West–East contrast in ...

From W.B. Yeats to James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, there is more than enough material from the most talented Irish writers to ensure you have a romantic message for that special someone on February ...

Tupelo Press, a North Adams-based publisher that highlights the voices of marginalized writers. On Feb. 9, it announced that ...

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry "makes nothing happen." While ...

A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...