William Butler Yeats

John Masefield "tells the true story of Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"; William Butler Yeats "gives a

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904

William Butler Yeats penned those lines after the Irish Easter uprising of 1916.

Rick Ayers: Festival of Hope at Tahrir Square Rick Ayers 2011

In 1912 the Irish poet William Butler Yeats came across a poetry manuscript freshly translated from Bengali to English by a writer then largely unknown beyond his native India.

Following the Tagore Trail Amy Yee 2011

In the centuries that followed, Swedenborg attracted any number of followers, many of them influential, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Butler Yeats, and some obscure, like the fellow who contacted me, a forty-something surveyor, ski resort jack-of-all-trades, and mathematician, who prefers the anonymity of “Mr. Southwest.”

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

But "Ghost Light" is not merely a fictional rendering of factual events, although it contains razor-sharp portraits of William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory and a nuanced assessment of the riotous Dublin premiere of "Playboy."

The American Scholar's Wendy Smith reviews 'Ghost Light' by Joseph O'Connor 2011

William Butler Yeats penned those lines after the Irish Easter uprising of 1916.

Rick Ayers: Festival of Hope at Tahrir Square Rick Ayers 2011

William Butler Yeats penned those lines after the Irish Easter uprising of 1916.

Rick Ayers: Festival of Hope at Tahrir Square Rick Ayers 2011

It was a grey afternoon when Lucien Carr holding a torn copy of A Vision by William Butler Yeats pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to a reformatory in Elmira, New York.

The Knitting Needle Bill Yarrow 2011

William Butler Yeats penned those lines after the Irish Easter uprising of 1916.

Rick Ayers: Festival of Hope at Tahrir Square Rick Ayers 2011

But "Ghost Light" is not merely a fictional rendering of factual events, although it contains razor-sharp portraits of William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory and a nuanced assessment of the riotous Dublin premiere of "Playboy."

The American Scholar's Wendy Smith reviews 'Ghost Light' by Joseph O'Connor 2011