I first heard WB Yeats’s poetry spoken aloud not by the reedy-voiced poet himself intoning on an early recording, or by a teacher at high school or a friend at university, but on an album that ...

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 ...

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, 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 into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let's be honest. No listener can truly claim to have a working knowledge of and appreciation for all kinds of music. It's exceedingly rare to get a person who is an equally massive fan of Bulgarian ...

While living in Belfast during the early 1950s, Stephen said Heaney published some poems under the penname Incertus - which ...