Oscar Wilde quipped, Seamus Heaney drank, W.B. Yeats shopped
On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...
Long Before I Discovered My Irish Heritage, Irish Folktales Comforted My Dying Grandfather ...
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for ...
RTE Online3 年
The Father’s Prayers: W.B. Yeats in 1919
It was billed as a play by W.B. Yeats, but Lady Gregory had written large parts of it. Most of the dialogue had been hers, while Yeats (who had been inspired with the idea in a dream) wrote the ...
The Atlantic14 年
William Butler Yeats
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 ...
RTE Online3 个月
A Poet Discouraged - Yeats, 1913
A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...
JSTOR Daily6 年
The Poem on the Mountain: A Chinese Reading of Yeats’s ‘Lapis Lazuli’
This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. W. B. Yeats, ‘Certain Noble Plays of Japan’, Essays and Introductions (London: Macmillan, 1961), 225. Although I apply Yeats’s use of ...
Independent.ie3 年
Who or what to include in a Yeats Centre?
Declan Foley, formerly of Sligo, now Secretary of The Yeats Society of Victoria, Australia, gives his thoughts on the proposal W.B. Yeats. Scanned from the NPA collection The final resting place ...
Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword
An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...