My summer reading project this year was to finish the two-volume historical biography of William Butler Yeats by R.F. Foster. I regret to say that I have so far completed only the first volume, ...

MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...

William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Sandymount in Dublin and went on to become a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th century. In 1923, the talented Irish ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Since May 2006, Ireland’s National Library has hosted a popular exhibit ...

“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 ...

William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a hundred years ago, when the world seemed on the verge. Perhaps like now, perhaps like many years. The losses of the First World War were still ...

What happens when writers embrace artificial intelligence as their muse? By A.O. Scott Those who complete this year’s race in October will receive a medal that reads, “There are no strangers here; ...