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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.

Alvin Langdon Coburn’s portrait of W. B. Yeats, from the book Men ofMark, 1913. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” declares Oscar Wilde, “Give him a mask and he will tell you the ...

MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, William Butler Yeats’s childhood summers spent with relatives in Sligo had a formative influence on the poet for the remainder of his life. The otherworldliness of ...

During a dark and grim history, certain wordsmiths in Ireland have given voice to the human condition, experienced by everyone who has experienced hardship. Famously demonstrating a keen and ...