William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) is reported to have come to loathe “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” Given time and enough repeat performances, artists often learn to despise their greatest hits. Of all ...

In his 1892 poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats fantasizes about a life lived in solitude on an island in Lough Gill in Ireland, where the poet spent his summers as a child. Earlier this year, as a ...

It's interesting that the great poet of Ireland, a country long associated with strife and troubles, should have written a poem containing one of the best-known uses in poetry of the word "peace." ...

THE Irish poet W B Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin but lived more than half his life outside Ireland. His studies at art school in Dublin no doubt influenced the vividness of his descriptive ...

William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is about the allure of an imagined refuge. The poem’s distressed urban speaker fantasizes about fleeing the city and retreating to an idyllic Irish ...

In collaboration with The Model, Hazelwood Demesne Ltd, and Sligo City Council, the Institute of Technology Sligo has launched "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," an international architecture competition ...

Korean budget beauty brand Innisfree, which opened its first US store this week, took its name from a poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The popular Korean beauty brand Innisfree opened its first US ...