W. B. Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many poets ...

This album sounds much better than the concept. The Waterboys’ Mike Scott has written 14 songs using the poetry of W.B. Yeats, and the collaboration shouldn’t work – not with such lyrics as ...

On W. B. Yeats: The Man & the Milieu by Keith Alldritt & W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865–1914, by R. F. Forster. The veils surrounding the twentieth century’s greatest poet, ...

Mike Scott continues a decades-long love affair with the words of Irish poet WB Yeats on An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, an album of brilliant, mystical music worthy of Yeats’s immortal words. I bought ...

WASHINGTON — From Brussels to Boise, President Joe Biden has relied on the same line of Irish poetry to talk about a changing world. Biden has quoted “Easter, 1916” by W.B. Yeats seven times since ...

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 ...

The desperate young woman left a message for me on a Tuesday morning when my voice mail was jammed with angry readers calling about a comparison I’d made between a 35-year-old mother of two who was ...