In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...

Mistakes are instructive. In particular, they can become a form of analysis, as, for example, in sports or music, when getting something a little bit wrong leads to improvement in technique or ...

Yeats spent several of his childhood years and many of his adolescent summers near the town of Sligo, and from that Western countryside, so full of the beauties of lake, mountain, and sea, and from ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, William Butler Yeats’s childhood summers spent with relatives in Sligo had a formative influence on the poet for the remainder of his life. The otherworldliness of ...

DUBLIN, Ireland – A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats’ most political poems, “Easter 1916,” was sold Wednesday at Adam’s auctioneers in central Dublin ...

A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats' most political poems, "Easter 1916," was auctioned Wednesday in Dublin, drawing $9,600 from an anonymous bidder — ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Mohini Chatterji was a Bengali Brahman whom Yeats invited to come to Dublin in 1885 or 1886 to lecture on Indian theosophy. Chatterjee helped ...

THE Yeats Society is delighted to present Les Murray, Australia's leading poet and one of the world's greatest contemporary poets. Following his performance in New York's Guggenheim Museum and the ...

THE Yeats Society will hold an evening of poetry and wine with Rita Ann Higgins on Friday evening, April 12th. This will be followed by a poetry workshop the following Saturday morning, April 13th.

DUBLIN, Ireland — A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats’ most political poems, “Easter 1916,” was sold Wednesday at Adam’s auctioneers in central Dublin ...