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I first heard WB Yeats's poetry spoken aloud not by the reedy-voiced poet himself intoning on an early recording, ... Selected Poems, By W B Yeats. Adam O'Riordan. Friday 23 July 2010 00:00 BST.
Book of a lifetime: Selected Poems by WB Yeats. From The Independent archive: Adam O’Riordan finds the Irish poet’s work helps him explore his roots. Friday 30 September 2022 21:30 BST.
YEATS is inextricably associated in our hearts with Synge and Dunsany and Pearse and MacDonagh and Plunkett and the Celtic Revival ... yet there is no falling off in this volume called Later Poems.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was one of Ireland’s greatest poets—and also worked as a playwright and literary critics.He is considered one of the foremost poets in the history of 20th ...
The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at a free poetry event on Tuesday, March 17 at 8 p.m., featuring Cranford poet John McDermott.
Irish jazz singer Christine Tobin, shown performing at the 2010 Cheltenham Jazz Festival, will perform her settings of poems by William Butler Yeats today as part of a series presented by the Fund ...
Composer/pianist Gregg Kallor and mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala / Photo provided by University of Minnesota School of Music Composer and pianist Gregg Kallor has set poems of Emily Dickinson and ...
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 ...