Book of a lifetime: Selected Poems by WB Yeats. From The Independent archive: Adam O’Riordan finds the Irish poet’s work helps him explore his roots. Friday 30 September 2022 21:30 BST.

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles and Reviews Written Between 1886 and 1900 William Butler Yeats. Scribner Book Company, $50 (672pp ...

The Collected Letters of WB Yeats Vol V, 1908-1910 review: An intimate chapter in the history of Ireland. ... With the new manager in place, Yeats returns to the writing of poetry.

In the poetry of WB Yeats, many poems are focused on nature, using images, atmosphere and sound in order to involve all of the reader’s senses, immersing them in the moment.

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 ...

I’m not going to write about “The Song of Wandering Aengus”. Not the whole poem, at least. It’s a beautiful poem by one of the world’s most famous poets, but you know that already. So ...

The correspondence between W.B Yeats and his wife George shows the complexities of art and ... Poems did not come easily to Yeats. In a late poem called “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” he ...

Saturday marks the 150th birthday of William Butler Yeats, one of the 20th century's greatest poets. In far western Ireland's County Galway, Yeats found inspiration in the people and landscape.

The poetry of W. B. Yeats faces up to fanaticism and, as Yeats himself fell in love with a fanatic, tries to understand and go beyond it.