William butler yeats

W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats) (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount and was educated in Dublin and London and spent…

The widening gyre of heavy-handed allusions to Yeats’s “The Second Coming.” A recent Russia Today headline suggests that Europe is “slouching towards anxiety and war.” According to the title of Robert Bork’s latest best seller, the United States is Slouching Towards Gomorrah. A new book by W. C. Harris, an English professor, claims we’re Slouching Towards […]

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W.B. Yeats as a 60-year-old official Irish senator in a schoolroom full of children has to redefine his outlook on love, labour and life. The poem explores how to reconcile past and present, love and pain, body and soul.

William Butler Yeats Poems > My poetic side

The grief that nearly killed him. His fears of war after Brexit. And how his love for the great Irish poet WB Yeats made Bob Geldof start believing in Ireland once again.

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London. Yeats published h…

Because therein you really discover your whole heart... and that... is the poetry of your life... This board may not be what is considered poetic writing, it is most definitely some pieces of the she in me, underneath the skin... <3