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 ...

This album sounds much better than the concept. The Waterboys’ Mike Scott has written 14 songs using the poetry of W.B. Yeats, and the collaboration shouldn’t work – not with such lyrics as ...

Vendler cast her searching eye on individual poems by great poets in the final work of her life, Inhabit the Poem: Last ...

On W. B. Yeats: The Man & the Milieu by Keith Alldritt & W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865–1914, by R. F. Forster. The veils surrounding the twentieth century’s greatest poet, ...

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 ...

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 ...