Acclaimed Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939 ... One of literary history’s most famous love poems, “Bright Star” was ...

William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three ... working as a journalist in London. His best-known early poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," came to his mind in a London street, and expressed ...

In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired ... read by Sir Ian McKellen Some of the most powerful poetry ever written was in response to the horrors ...

Why is the greatest Polish poet one whose poems ... of some of the best poetry out there. To imagine Leśmian in English, one would have to fancy a poet combining the myth-creating capacities of ...

Yeats’s definition of poetry as a “quarrel with ourselves ... and even as I believe that seeing the imago Dei in even the most detestable person is central to Christian faith, I sometimes wonder: Who ...

Four incredibly strong women, all with a shared ability – like most of us – to be moved ... was both abhorrent and unimaginable, Yeats’s poem was a curiosity, a glimpse into a world as ...

In his justly famous and prophetic poem “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats wrote the lines “The best lack all ...

By Craig Morgan Teicher Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of several books of poetry, most recently ... to blame,” she recruits Yeats’s rough beast, that famous harbinger of doom, as ...

I thrill to read the words of Auden, Yeats or Jibanananda, and have a hard time thinking of a greater pleasure. Not just ...

Dublin is a city steeped in literary history, home to some of the greatest writers in the English language. Here's a guide to ...