William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died on this day in 1939. Editor's Note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his ...

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What can an individual do when there’s so little hope while facing a chaotic four years ahead? Stand up and be heard.

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

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Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was ...

On March 13, the series will host an “Irish Poets Night” in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, with John McDermott reading works by William Butler Yeats as well as his own poetry. National Poetry ...

Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion and author of The Metaverse book, dropped 220 slides in a deck this week that explained what happened in gaming.

He ends by quoting William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” a poem popular on the right, and wrote: Wicker nailed it when he quoted Yeats to describe the emergence of Trump. But now ...