November 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous and influential poems of the 20th century. It is titled “The Second Coming.” It was written in 1919 by the Irish ...
MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...
The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the community to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at a free poetry event on Tuesday, March 17 at 8 p.m., featuring Cranford poet John McDermott. McDermott will read ...
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved ...
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore ...
New York. The Macmillan Company. 12mo. xiii+362pp. $2.50. YEATS is inextricably associated in our hearts with Synge and Dunsany and Pearse and MacDonagh and Plunkett and the Celtic Revival and the ...
Alvin Langdon Coburn’s portrait of W. B. Yeats, from the book Men ofMark, 1913. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” declares Oscar Wilde, “Give him a mask and he will tell you the ...