Acclaimed Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939 ... The simplicity and precision of short Japanese poems, and their ...

William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets. He is still writing, and the poems which now appear, usually embedded in short plays or set ...

In October 1913, W. B. Yeats published privately through his sisters’ Cuala Press 50 copies of Poems Written in Discouragement, 1912-1913. This book gathered together the poems inspired by the ...

Informed by Yeats of this fact, Dulac offered to have the poem translated if Yeats could send him a copy ... As he writes, Western tragedy ‘finds no equivalent in Chinese. In short, both Western and ...

From this canon, which consists almost wholly of rather short works ... Through the use of symbol-studded poetry, music, and dancing, Yeats tried to build a ritual pattern, every part of which ...

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

In following this belief Yeats was predisposed to accept the Greek idea that poetry is inspired by the Muses, as expressed in Plato’s dictum that “all good poets…compose their beautiful ...