In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...

William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets. He is still writing, and the poems which now appear, usually embedded in short plays or set into ...

William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a hundred years ago, when the world seemed on the verge. Perhaps like now, perhaps like many years. The losses of the First World War were still ...

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 ...

So here, under airtight, light-shielding glass, is a notebook given to William Butler Yeats in 1908 by Maud Gonne, the beautiful, brainy feminist Irish revolutionary and object of Yeats' infatuation ...

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 ...

Mistakes are instructive. In particular, they can become a form of analysis, as, for example, in sports or music, when getting something a little bit wrong leads to improvement in technique or ...

What happens when writers embrace artificial intelligence as their muse? By A.O. Scott Those who complete this year’s race in October will receive a medal that reads, “There are no strangers here; ...

William Butler Yeats first appears, in the memories of his contemporaries, as a rarefied human being: a tall, dark-visaged young man who walked the streets of Dublin and London in a poetic hat, cloak, ...