William butler yeats

The widening gyre of heavy-handed allusions to Yeats’s “The Second Coming.” A recent Russia Today headline suggests that Europe is “slouching towards anxiety and war.” According to the title of Robert Bork’s latest best seller, the United States is Slouching Towards Gomorrah. A new book by W. C. Harris, an English professor, claims we’re Slouching Towards […]

W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats) (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount and was educated in Dublin and London and spent…

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William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London. Yeats published h…

The grief that nearly killed him. His fears of war after Brexit. And how his love for the great Irish poet WB Yeats made Bob Geldof start believing in Ireland once again.

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop’ first appeared as part of the collection Words for Music Perhaps in 1932; it is one of W. B. Yeats’s later poems and…

W.B Yeats’s spooky obsession with the occult is to be celebrated this weekend with a major new exhibition at The Model in County Sligo - his spiritual home.

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