In October 1913, W. B. Yeats published privately through his sisters’ Cuala Press 50 copies of Poems Written in Discouragement, 1912-1913. This book gathered together the poems inspired by the ...

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 ...

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Acclaimed Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) wrote this exquisite poem for fiery Irish revolutionary and actress Maud Gonne in 1899.

It was nearly 11 o’clock on the evening of 14 November 1923 when the future editor of the Irish Times telephoned the poet W.B. Yeats and told him he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Auden’s poetry here illustrates the trickle-down effect of poorly thought-out decisions of politicians and rulers, and how ...

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The greatest works of Irish Poetry are contained within the folds of this 1,000-page Penguin anthology. Enjoy the works of Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, as well as Jonathan Swift, ...

Sligo Poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats rests peacefully at the foot of Benbulben at Drumcliffe Church and it ...

If I were a high school English teacher, one assignment of mine would be to select a poem, from a mini-anthology I would assemble representing a range of diverse forms and traditions, and to ...