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 ...

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

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

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was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.

I joined the School of English in September 2010 and I’m a senior lecturer in Romantic Literature. My primary research interest is the poetry of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Yeats. I also have ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as one of the most significant poets of the past century. And yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out ...

It could also imply the poverty noted towards the end of the poem. Yeats repeats words and uses words that have just one stressed syllable at the end of each line, known as monosyllabic masculine ...

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Though Yeats, Eliot and Pound certainly attempted to resolve in art problems that could ... Yet this aesthetic retained an element of critical power, precisely because it could not cover up the ...

Drawing inspiration from poems by Yeats and Pushkin, the Halifax quartet cloaks supernatural questions under steady strums and familiar sonic textures. On a surface level—with the words tuned ...