“Mr. Yeats frequently let his mind roam far afield in the realm of fancy,” gushed the New York Times obituary ... everything that made him William Butler Yeats. As W.H. Auden put it ...

William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three ... The year 1891 brought Parnell's death. The tragic end of a leader intensely hated and loved, and the loss of much political hope thereby ...

Yeats wrote the poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” in honor of Major Gregory, who fought and died in the air war against Germany in World War One. The first two lines of the poem prepare the ...

A series of events are taking place across Sligo to celebrate Yeats Day - marking 160 years since the birth of Nobel Laureate ...

Born in Dublin on June 13, 1865, William Butler Yeats was the first Nobel Literature ... in this he writes about human's attitude about life and death and compares that to an animal's ignorance.