Perfection of the life or of the work? The correspondence between W.B. Yeats and his wife George shows the complexities of art and life entwined. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the ...

"There was also the practical problem of scholars coming to George Yeats for access to them," she added. And thanks to various loans, paintings by Yeats (he was briefly an art student) and by his ...

The room had a wrought-iron balcony overlooking the Mediterranean, his final vista. Yeats's wife, George, and his last mistress, Edith Shackleton Heald, were at his bedside. They took turns ...

Becoming George: The Life of Mrs WB Yeats By Ann Saddlemyer George Yeats is a good subject for a short biography. Her ancestors were wealthy and had minor standing in Cheshire. Her education more ...

of more than 500 letters between WB Yeats and his wife George. The letters between WB and George Yeats had been due to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in London on 27th September. The National ...

Aware that the poet's remains had been scattered in an ossuary in 1946, Yeats's friends attempted to dissuade his widow, George, from going through with the repatriation. At the ceremony in Co ...

They had met earlier for lunch and Yeats had left to visit his wife George and newborn daughter in the nursing home in Fitzwilliam Street, as he had done every afternoon since her birth.

B. and George Yeats, Richard Aldington and Brigit Patmore, and other poets living in Italy during Mussolini’s regime. STRANGER TO THE MOON, by Evelio Rosero. Translated by Victor Meadowcroft and ...

Why? Because he had promised George Yeats he would keep details of their married life unpublished until after her death. The following extracts from' Yeats: The Man and the Masks' (1st ed ...

“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 ...