In October 1913, W. B. Yeats published privately through his sisters’ Cuala Press 50 copies of Poems Written in Discouragement, 1912-1913. This book gathered together the poems inspired by the ...

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 ...

Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978 ...

The Center Did Not Hold About 100 years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” which has become ...

The poet William Butler Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.

In the early years of the 20th century, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats experimented with automatic ...