My summer reading project this year was to finish the two-volume historical biography of William Butler Yeats by R.F. Foster. I regret to say that I have so far completed only the first volume, ...

MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...

It shouldn’t be surprising that an Irish poet and dramatist as prolific as William Butler Yeats elicits similarly verbose responses from authors and scholars alike. Unlike the many great poets whose ...

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 ...

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THE Anglo-Irish poet W.B. Yeats throws up considerable challenges to any would-be biographer. Yeats was one of the four great, mould-breaking, English-language poets of the 20th century (the others, ...