The great Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who would be 150 today, wrote poems that stick with you through life. He also set the standard for poetic public service.

Composer/pianist Gregg Kallor and mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala / Photo provided by University of Minnesota School of Music Composer and pianist Gregg Kallor has set poems of Emily Dickinson and ...

That's Yeats, dude -- William Butler Yeats, from a poem called "The Host of the Air," from The Wind Among the Reeds, published in 1899, when Yeats was 34 years old. Why tell you this? To get you laid.

Slate Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky will be joining in discussion of William Butler Yeats' "On Being Asked for a War Poem" this week. Post your questions and comments on the work, and he'll respond ...

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 ...

I'd had the picture in my mind forever, that is ever since I first read William Butler Yeats' famous poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." It was a sizable island of rocks and pines on a large lake ...

Cranford poet John McDermott will read his own works plus selections from Yeats at the March 17 event. ... William Butler Yeats poems to be read at St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Kuran Arts ...

A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats' most political poems, "Easter 1916," was auctioned Wednesday in Dublin, drawing $9,600 from an anonymous ...

Irish jazz singer Christine Tobin, shown performing at the 2010 Cheltenham Jazz Festival, will perform her settings of poems by William Butler Yeats today as part of a series presented by the Fund ...

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 YEATS AND ALFRED NOYES; The Poet of the Celtic Revival in a New Edition -- The Earlier Work of the Author of Blackwood's Epic.* Share full article.