As things fall apart, Yeats’ 1919 poem ‘The Second Coming’ seems as timely as ever

I forwarded an email to my friend Sam with the note, “Want to go to this?” ...

Quote of the day by WB Yeats: "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply..."

William Butler Yeats, a pivotal figure in modern literature, masterfully blended mysticism, politics, and folklore, ...
Chicago magazine

Poetry Foundation Stages ‘Meet Mr. Yeats’

In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...
The Atlantic

William Butler Yeats

Yeats spent several of his childhood years and many of his adolescent summers near the town of Sligo, and from that Western countryside, so full of the beauties of lake, mountain, and sea, and from ...
Irish Central

The Poetry of Yeats Country – Why you must visit now!

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, William Butler Yeats’s childhood summers spent with relatives in Sligo had a formative influence on the poet for the remainder of his life. The otherworldliness of ...
The New York Times

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.*

Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Bliss Carman. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version ...