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 ...

William Martin Murphy ... Roy Foster has said that the image may have been suggested to Yeats by a poem by Thomas MacDonagh in the Irish Review of June 1911: a vision of an Irish village where ...

How many of these phrases have you heard? “Things fall apart … no country for old men … a terrible beauty … the deep heart's core … dance like a wave of the sea.” Some of them have become movie, book ...

If you are studying poetry with CCEA your examination will be 'open book'. This means you will have an unannotated copy of the poems and you will be asked to compare two poems from your chosen ...

can furnish a profit to grand opera companies and an enthusiastic audience for Poet William Butler Yeats, does it not indicate that idealism hereabouts is triumphing over materialism?” ...