Slate Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky will be joining in discussion of William Butler Yeats' "On Being Asked for a War Poem" this week. Post your questions and comments on the work, and he'll respond ...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was one of Ireland’s greatest poets—and also worked as a playwright and literary critics.He is considered one of the foremost poets in the history of 20th ...

William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming, Pandemic, Meaning 100 Years Later NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what a 100 year-old poem by William Butler Yeats means today.

I'd had the picture in my mind forever, that is ever since I first read William Butler Yeats' famous poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." It was a sizable island of rocks and pines on a large lake ...

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 ...

The great Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who would be 150 today, wrote poems that stick with you through life. He also set the standard for poetic public service.

Need to solve a challenging problem? Read or write some poetry! Compelling research demonstrates that poetry can accelerate ...

William Butler Yeats, the first Irish man to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died on January 28, 1939. Here's a llook at the muses who influenced him.

William Butler Yeats knew the power that a single sentence can have. A terrible beauty is born. That is no country for old men. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards ...

Irish writer William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." ...

Nobel Prize winning Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) pictured in 1923 with his wife Georgie Hyde Lees. Photo: Keystone/Getty Images.