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.” ...

THE Anglo-Irish poet W.B. Yeats throws up considerable challenges to any would-be biographer. Yeats was one of the four great, mould-breaking, English-language poets of the 20th century (the others, ...

It shouldn’t be surprising that an Irish poet and dramatist as prolific as William Butler Yeats elicits similarly verbose responses from authors and scholars alike. Unlike the many great poets whose ...

The life of W.B. Yeats is the Everest of Irish literary biographies: there is no more challenging task for a biographer than to give an accurate and fair account of this extraordinarily complex and ...

Yeats went to Paris in 1894, at a time when Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Axel was exerting its power over the young for the first time. This poem, "the swan song of romanticism," a mixture of Gothic ...

Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), the youngest son of the Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and brother to poet W. B. Yeats, was born in London but spent his formative years in County Sligo, Ireland, ...

A claim that W B Yeats suffered from Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, has aroused controversy in Ireland, where he is a towering figure in the literary pantheon. The claim about Yeats, who is ...

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