A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats' most political poems, "Easter 1916," was auctioned Wednesday in Dublin, drawing $9,600 from an anonymous bidder — ...

DUBLIN, Ireland – A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats’ most political poems, “Easter 1916,” was sold Wednesday at Adam’s auctioneers in central Dublin ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — From Brussels to Boise, President Joe Biden has relied on the same line of Irish poetry to talk about a changing world. Biden has quoted “Easter, 1916” by W.B. Yeats seven times since ...

New York. The Macmillan Company. 12mo. xiii+362pp. $2.50. YEATS is inextricably associated in our hearts with Synge and Dunsany and Pearse and MacDonagh and Plunkett and the Celtic Revival and the ...

Internationally recognized as one of America's leading artists of the time, Richard Diebenkorn produced six prints to accompany the 1990 publication Poems of W.B. Yeats, which included 145 of Yeats' ...

One of Ireland’s premier jazz singers interprets the works of one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, as Christine Tobin performs songs from her award-winning album, “Sailing to Byzantium,” this ...

Mike Scott continues a decades-long love affair with the words of Irish poet WB Yeats on An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, an album of brilliant, mystical music worthy of Yeats’s immortal words. I bought ...

Let's be honest. No listener can truly claim to have a working knowledge of and appreciation for all kinds of music. It's exceedingly rare to get a person who is an equally massive fan of Bulgarian ...

While living in Belfast during the early 1950s, Stephen said Heaney published some poems under the penname Incertus - which ...