The Guardian: Irish poet WB Yeats honoured with worldwide 150th birthday celebrations
Independent.ie: Poetry takes to the streets as Sligo celebrates the birthday of WB Yeats with four day festival
Poetry takes to the streets as Sligo celebrates the birthday of WB Yeats with four day festival
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.” ...
From a new Irish stamp to a public reading by Fiona Shaw, global events in honour of ‘a great public and private poet’ begin Open thread: which is your favourite Yeats poem? The 150th anniversary of ...
The poetry of WB Yeats is central to the Yeats Day Festival, now in its 14th year. Once again, our global hashtag - YeatsDay - social media event invites people across Ireland and the world to recite ...
The Irish Times: The Life of W.B. Yeats: A Critical Biography, by Terence Brown (Gill and Macmillan, £13.40)
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 ...
The Life of W.B. Yeats: A Critical Biography, by Terence Brown (Gill and Macmillan, £13.40)
It indicates the care and acuity with which “Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts” has been put together that the show begins so sensibly: with portraits of its principals.