William Butler Yeats was staying with an artist friend in England in April, 1916, when he learned that insurgents in Dublin had staged an uprising against British rule. The news "broke on his head ...

YEATS’S Easter 1916, with its famously ambiguous refrain ‘A terrible beauty is born’, is a poem which is both defined by, and to some extent defines, an understanding of Easter week 1916. Invoking ...

The 1923 Nobel laureate in literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), is admired as arguably the greatest English-language poet of the 20th century. His country Ireland was the longest standing ...

Jonathan Bate presents a series which examines historical events through the poetry they inspired. By WB Yeats. With the poet Theo Dorgan, novelist Anne Enright and historian Diarmuid Ferriter, ...

An original copy of William Butler Yeats' Easter 1916, one of his most political poems, was sold Wednesday in Dublin for $11,400. The first-edition poem, one of three known copies to exist worldwide, ...

IT was a putdown like no other. When Maud Gonne told besotted poet WB Yeats "No, I don't like your poem,” it is fair to say that the poet probably reacted badly. He had just written ‘Easter, 1916’ and ...

Tomorrow sees the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats. Dermot Bolger delves behind the public Yeats to visit the sanctuary where he raised his family, and argues that his poem, Easter 1916, ...

Throughout April, as a celebration of National Poetry Month, we're highlighting noteworthy poetry in The Atlantic archives. Today's selection is "Easter 1916" by William Butler Yeats. Read Atlantic ...