At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism. Simon Starling, still from “At Twilight / The Hawk’s Dance” (2016), ...

The 31st annual Yeats Winter School will run at the Sligo Park Hotel from January 23-25. The event is an opportunity for those with a general interest in the work of W.B. Yeats to meet with academics, ...

A celebration of the amazing Sligo poet W.B. Yeat's on his birthday! It’s said that W.B. Yeats always thought that his words should be played out in song. Thus, it couldn't have been more perfect ...

On W. B. Yeats: The Man & the Milieu by Keith Alldritt & W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865–1914, by R. F. Forster. The veils surrounding the twentieth century’s greatest poet, ...

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 ...

Pronounced poet/playwright William Butler (WB) Yeats wrote in 1922, “I have loved you better than my soul.” Yeats’ words remain as mystical as the autumn mist that descends and forms an ethereal ...

A LMOST forty years ago I wrote, but didn’t publish, a few little essays about meetings with interesting contemporaries of mine. One of these was about my first meetings with W. B. Yeats. At that time ...

THESE letters are so stimulating that one sits, pencil in hand, making frequent underlinings. They are the observations of a good man, a sound artist and critic, a rich mmd, a responsive heart. And ...

The Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats was born this day in 1865, in Dublin, Ireland. To honor his hundred and forty-seventh birthday, here’s a selection of images from the recently ...