Mike Scott continues a decades-long love affair with the words of Irish poet WB Yeats on An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, an album of brilliant, mystical music worthy of Yeats’s immortal words. I bought ...

One of Ireland’s premier jazz singers interprets the works of one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, as Christine Tobin performs songs from her award-winning album, “Sailing to Byzantium,” this ...

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 ...

A young girl in the indolence of her youth, Or an old man upon a winter’s night.

W hen I first applied to the Weekender in the spring semester of my freshman year, I submitted a commentary I wrote on W.B. Yeats’ poem, “To a Child Dancing in the Wind” as a part of my application.

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 ...

Reviewed Work: The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats, Peter Allt, Russell K. Alspach Having never missed an issue in more than a century, the Sewanee Review is the oldest ...

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His collections of poetry include "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889) and "In the Seven Woods" (1903). Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923.

W. B. Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many poets ...

First Irish Nobel Laureate, William Butler Yeats was an organic bridge between Orient and Western countries, and specifically between Indians and Irish which is quite amply manifested in his writings.