William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets. He is still writing, and the poems which now appear, usually embedded in short plays or set ...

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

The poet William Butler Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.

Yeats published ... has put it 'this was poetry as political manifesto' and with its aggressive timing but also its high tone of superiority bound to raise hackles. William Martin Murphy, the ...

The ornate, stained glass lantern that poet William Butler Yeats used when climbing and descending “the winding stair” in his Co Galway home at Thoor Ballylee, Kiltartan, has been returned to ...

The pair – christened Susan and Elizabeth when they were born in the 1860s – lived in the shadow of their brothers, the poet William Butler Yeats and the artist Jack Butler Yeats, and their ...

William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th ... so honored for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit ...

A little over 100 years ago, in the disillusioned aftermath of The Great War (now known as World War I), the Irish poet William Butler Yeats penned one of the most canonical and frequently quoted ...