“No one who likes Yeats is capable of human intimacy,” declares a character in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, quoted somewhat tongue-in-cheek by Joseph Hassett in this subtle and often ...

DUBLIN, Ireland – A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats’ most political poems, “Easter 1916,” was sold Wednesday at Adam’s auctioneers in central Dublin ...

A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats' most political poems, "Easter 1916," was auctioned Wednesday in Dublin, drawing $9,600 from an anonymous bidder — ...

Yeats spent several of his childhood years and many of his adolescent summers near the town of Sligo, and from that Western countryside, so full of the beauties of lake, mountain, and sea, and from ...

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 ...

In times of political upheaval, the poetry of WB Yeats is frequently quoted, particularly The Second Coming, with its very repeatable and malleable line: “The centre cannot hold”. Leo Varadkar quoted ...

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 ...

DRUMCLIFF, Ireland–William Butler Yeats called County Sligo “The Land of Heart’s Desire.” The place names are threaded through his poetry, transporting the reader to his land of myth and magic, beauty ...