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Donation Options Search Search Search Irish poet W.B. Yeats in a 1921 photo. Chicago Sun-Times archive Share W.B. Yeats went shopping on Michigan Avenue, where he was so taken with a wardrobe ...

The poem starts by describing life as a messy, mixed-up place, which he calls ... But in the process of revisiting and renouncing his favorite images, Yeats constructed an exquisite, moving ...

A number of events will take place in Sligo this week to mark the anniversary of the birth of W B Yeats. Yeats Day takes place on June 13th and there will also be several events to mark the occasion.

I still believe that in the worst possible America—a state that would resemble, say, Erdoğan’s Turkey, or Orbán’s Hungary—there would be a place for the arts ... So instead I have been rereading W. B.

"Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" was my favorite. I wished someone would ... The voice that once attracted a young W.B Yeats was now attracting women from all over Ireland, and taking ...

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Sir, - Denis Staunton’s report describing WB Yeats’s links to South Korea caught my attention (“How WB Yeats resonated with Korea and established a bond spanning the world”, November 2nd).

The family connection, and his desire to be forever in the shadow of Ben Bulben, would lead W.B. Yeats to request that Drumcliff be his final resting place ... Share your favorite stories with ...

The third Indian was a Swami whose poems also found place in Yeats’s anthology. With Swami Purohit ... The other, “Across the Universe,” John Lennon said was “one of my favorite songs. I gave it at ...

My mind went unbidden to Ireland, a place I’d never been, and therefore free from memory or reminder. Following the thought through, I pulled a book of W.B. Yeats from the shelf and read ...