Mistakes are instructive. In particular, they can become a form of analysis, as, for example, in sports or music, when getting something a little bit wrong leads to improvement in technique or ...
In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats' most political poems, "Easter 1916," was auctioned Wednesday in Dublin, drawing $9,600 from an anonymous bidder — ...
William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a hundred years ago, when the world seemed on the verge. Perhaps like now, perhaps like many years. The losses of the First World War were still ...
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 ...
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