The father of an old, estranged fiancé of mine once asked me why I raised our daughters Catholic. The implication was that ...

In his “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” W.H. Auden proclaimed ... wrote that football should be “evermore,” whereas poetry should be “nevermore.” In short, you don’t have to be Poe ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Acclaimed Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939 ... The simplicity and precision of short Japanese poems, and their ability to convey so much in so few characters, later inspired Imagist ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

In a recent roundup celebrating Ireland’s most-reviewed attractions, Glencar Waterfall in North Leitrim has emerged as one of the country’s top ten crowd-pleasers. This natural marvel, tucked away in ...

This brings to mind the poets of ideology and algorithms that Nadezhda would have called “mechanical nightingales.” When a friend told the Mandelstams about a bird he’d seen that, on its owner’s ...

PETER QUINN The last time I saw Brendan was in Burke Rehabilitation hospital shortly after Christmas. He’d been hospitalized since August. We ...

Yet the scene gives way, almost before it has itself begun, to invocations of Einstein, Bergson, Yeats, Darwin ... “Derivative, nostalgic and banal”. Poetry? “Obscurantist wordplay”.

For all its charm, Dublin is just one piece of Ireland. Beyond the capital’s cobbled streets and overpriced pints lies a country bursting with history, culture, and landscapes that could make even the ...

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 ...

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