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, 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 celebrating with public readings and festivals.

It’s hard to overstate just how pivotal a figure in English literature William Butler Yeats was – and remains. “Yeats matters today in the way that Shakespeare or Jonson or Dickinson matter ...

“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was ...

Bob Geldof examines the life and work of 20th-century poet William Butler Yeats. He argues that Yeats brought about immense change in Ireland's struggle for independence. Show more Musician and ...