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 ...

WB Yeats's iconic poem 'Easter 1916' will feature widely during this centenary year of the Easter Rising. It is a many-layered work, but is essentially a love poem to Maud Gonne, whom the poet still ...

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 ...

Miss Shannon’s class, Central Model girls’ school, Gardiner Street, 1966. The 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. She beats out the metre with her stick. “Who does the poet meet at close of day, ...

I first heard WB Yeats’s poetry spoken aloud not by the reedy-voiced poet himself intoning on an early recording, or by a teacher at high school or a friend at university, but on an album that ...