When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved ...

Reviewed Work: The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats, Peter Allt, Russell K. Alspach Having never missed an issue in more than a century, the Sewanee Review is the oldest ...

Yeats spent several of his childhood years and many of his adolescent summers near the town of Sligo, and from that Western countryside, so full of the beauties of lake, mountain, and sea, and from ...

Mistakes are instructive. In particular, they can become a form of analysis, as, for example, in sports or music, when getting something a little bit wrong leads to improvement in technique or ...

For the month of June 2015 Drama on One presents a short series of programmes where poets will offer their personal responses and reflections on favourite poems by the Great Man of Irish Letters. For ...

A series of events are taking place across Sligo to celebrate Yeats Day - marking 160 years since the birth of Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats. The Yeats Society is inviting people across Ireland ...

Both President Obama and Vice President Biden resorted to Irish poets to make their respect and admiration for each other known to the world as both men leave office. The men were speaking at a ...

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 into ...