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 ...

Born in Dublin on June 13, 1865, William Butler Yeats was the first Nobel Literature laureate from Ireland. Considered as one of the most important poets of the 20th century who wrote in English ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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Cranford poet John McDermott will read his own works plus selections from Yeats at the March 17 event. ... William Butler Yeats poems to be read at St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Kuran Arts ...

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." ...