There he would work immediately on a new poem: A prayer - A prayer for his daughter. George, baby and W.B. Yeats were no sooner settled in their rented home, Dundrum Lodge, than husband and wife ...

Back then, in the days when the prospect of a grey hair, let alone a headful, was both abhorrent and unimaginable, Yeats’s poem was a curiosity, a glimpse into a world as alien to me as the ...

Informed by Yeats of this fact, Dulac offered to have the poem translated if Yeats could send him a copy or a photograph; but there is no evidence that Yeats ever took him up on this offer.

A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...

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 ...

William Butler Yeats ... poems and in plays like "A Full Moon in March" which insists on an ideal of love that survives the decrepitude of the body and death itself. Joseph Hassett’s W.B ...

Roy Foster on WB Yeats and Thoor Ballylee ... visible to the passer-by.” Yeats first mentioned climbing “the narrow winding stair” in his poem In Memory of Major Robert Gregory, written ...