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 recited Tagore's poems in the London residence of Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945) in presence of Ezra Pound (1885-1972) who introduced Tagore among the intellectual readers of America by ...

In the poetry of WB Yeats, many poems are focused on nature, using images, atmosphere and sound in order to involve all of the reader’s senses, immersing them in the moment.

The poet W.B. Yeats was born 150 years ago this week. In rural Ireland, a nun whose family has a personal history with the poet has turned a one-room schoolhouse into a small Yeats museum.

William Butler Yeats, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, was born in Ireland 150 years ago this week, and across the country, the Irish are… In The Rolling Hills Of Galway, Spirit Of W.B.

W B Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many poets ...

The poetry of W. B. Yeats faces up to fanaticism and, as Yeats himself fell in love with a fanatic, tries to understand and go beyond it.

She was 5 years old. "My first introduction to Yeats' poetry was here in this room, where the only Yeats poem we learned was 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree,' which he wrote in his younger days, and ...