| 单词 | Yeats |
| 例句 | But I, being poor, have only my dreams, thought Joseph, remembering the Yeats poem. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Bobby—I couldn’t get a sub for my Yeats seminar, so I’m prepping now at my office. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m enclosing a poem by Auden on the death of Yeats cut out from an old London Mercury from last year. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We meet with the usual suspects — like Nietzsche and Dawkins — but also romp around with Plato, Wittgenstein, Yeats, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z Yeats’s romantic poem, “Cloths of Heaven,” Jenn perked up and put down the phone. Perspective | How a fake ID led to a real romance — and a marriage, 14 years later 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Benji and Yeats, completely unfazed, trotted on, while we laughed at our fate — winter was apparently not yet done with us. Visiting Ireland, on horseback and off, for St. Patrick’s Day A learned villain, she quotes from an 1899 poem by Yeats, “The Wind Among the Reeds,” which describes a lover’s embrace as a way to fend off impending doom. 'The Leftovers' Recap: The Show Can Feel Like 'The Twilight Zone,' With Pretensions 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z The upstairs quarters, which included a study, a master bedroom and a guest room — also called a “stranger’s room” – were reached by a winding stairwell that Yeats used for both practical and metaphorical purpose. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The band's last album was An Appointment with Mr Yeats. Adventures of a Waterboy 2012-06-22T16:41:33Z Eliot assured Groucho that one of them now hung on a wall in his office, “with other famous friends such as W. B. Yeats and Paul Valery.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z To the west below was Glencar Waterfalls and Yeats’s haunting “The Stolen Child:” Climbing the summits of Irish literature But to leave it at that — to say that Yeats picked a dud — would be like declaring that you had no music in your soul. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z On wooden shelves labeled Irish Fiction you’ll find works by George Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats, a reminder of how much literature has been wrung out of the little emerald isle. Following ‘Game of Thrones’ to Belfast and Beyond 2013-07-05T17:34:29Z “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry,” W. H. Auden wrote of Yeats. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Setting poems to music doesn't always work, but Callier's song, Golden Apples of the Sun, actually does Yeats's beautiful words justice. Readers recommend: songs about gold – results 2012-07-26T15:03:00Z The house featured in a poem by W B Yeats, for whom it was a favourite haunt. Court overturns Lissadell ruling 2013-11-11T12:25:06Z This is something more than the habitual matter of trying to reconcile a great artist with his vile politics, as with Richard Wagner or W. B. Yeats. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The Yeats play conjures a moment when Cu Chulainn inadvertently kills his own son in battle and then, distraught, begins fighting “the deathless sea” and almost drowns. David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Mike Scott dramatically intones WB Yeats's News for the Delphic Oracle in the Waterboys' song of the same title. Readers recommend: songs about philosophers – results 2012-11-22T14:30:00Z RS's near-contemporary, Dylan Thomas, gleefully burnished his image as a young Bohemian genius, and Yeats, one of his poetic heroes, certainly took his own mythic persona very seriously. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z “Marty collected all these generations of talent, and set the tone of passionate intensity, as Yeats put it,” Mr. Wieseltier said. The New Republic's Party Includes Bill Clinton, Toasts and Whispers of Unease 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Didion famously drew her own inspiration from William Butler Yeats's "Second Coming," which brings the calamity of history's tipping points brutally to life. Andrew Bird narrates the "Inside Problems" that plague our atomized age 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z But these sons and daughters of farmers continue to ward against Yeats’s prophesy of ruin for his stone muse. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Carr sat there reading Yeats, to the bewilderment of police officers and crime reporters. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z When Yeats's rhyming system doesn't work in music, I've flipped the lines around, as long as I don't change the meaning. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z Yeats, William Morris or — his favorite author — Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Review: ‘The Forgers,’ a suspense novel by Bradford Morrow 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Yeats wrote of the ache of her rejection: Climbing the summits of Irish literature Yeats was already mining Irish myth and folklore. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z The duo also will perform June 16 at a Yeats and Bloomsday celebration the Irish Embassy is sponsoring in Dupont Circle Park. ‘The higher things of human life’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z His college roommate, the poet W. S. Merwin, introduced him to the work of William Butler Yeats, whose poems, along with those of Rainer Maria Rilke, exerted a lifelong influence. Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Went His Own Way, Dies at 87 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z “No wonder Yeats loved this place,” my wife said. Climbing the summits of Irish literature With the fuses ignited, George Yeats later recalled in a letter, an I.R.A. man stayed behind to say there would be two explosions, and thank you and good night. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z So was the tolerance—the scientific doubt—of the Scottish enlightenment and the lyricism of English and Irish poets, from Wordsworth to Yeats. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The order’s tools for attaining spiritual insight included ceremonial magic and tarot cards; the latter were particularly important to Yeats. Making the Tarot Literary Again 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Of those legions, Heaney, and before him, William Butler Yeats, towered above all. ‘Listen Now Again’ Is a Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z After a standing ovation, Scott unveils his first Yeats adaptation, The Stolen Child, from the Fisherman's Blues album of 1988. The Waterboys ? review 2011-02-02T18:34:59Z “The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats,” another National Library presentation, is a 10-minute walk from Heaney in College Green. ‘Listen Now Again’ Is a Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Many of the early verses in this complete volume show Larkin’s struggle to find a voice of his own; they reverberate with echoes of Yeats, Auden and Eliot. Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z For more on the Embassy of Ireland’s Yeats and Bloomsday celebration, visit www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/usa/news-and-events. ‘The higher things of human life’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Among the moderns, Yeats, even in old age, feels the tug of hopeless desire: “How can I, that girl standing there,/ My attention fix/ On Roman or on Russian/ Or on Spanish politics?” Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z And yet I’ve never liked memorization or recitation: Shel Silverstein and Maya Angelou in grade school, Yeats and my own slam poems in college. Review: ‘By Heart’ Commits Community to Memory 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z A Yeats exhibition that opened in 2006 will continue for another year at least in the galleries that adjoin the library. Cultured Traveler: In Europe, Five Libraries That Offer Respite From the Crowds 2011-07-29T19:36:57Z Yeats foresaw all of this when he met the young Pound in 1912: “He is a headlong ragged nature, is always hurting people’s feelings, but he has I think some genius and great good will.” What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Mike Scott, the Waterboys WB Yeats's poems draw me into a kind of otherworld that I love, and I wanted to make the soundtrack to that world. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z From “Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment,” here is Yeats: The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z It became another geographic touchstone for Yeats — so much so that in his poem “Under Ben Bulben,” he eerily directs the reader to his own grave, in the nearby cemetery of Drumcliffe. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Already, then, Mr. Starling is both channeling Yeats’s original play and improvising, to create a remake that chases its own tail. Simon Starling: Modernism Gazing Into the Past 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The Trump era so far is all about the center not holding, a time when, in the words of the poet Yeats, things fall apart. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Two decades later, the themes of Yeats, Pound and other modernists — themes of alienation, decay, a world in fragments — feel more current than anyone expected. Simon Starling: Modernism Gazing Into the Past 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z I started in 2015, which was the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats, and he’s always been a favorite of mine. ‘Ours is a face-to-face business’: The Irish ambassador to the U.S. on the difficulties of diplomacy during a pandemic 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z So I’m bound to like a man who bases his novel on an obscure Yeats play. David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z The tower also harbors a significant piece of the legacy of William Butler Yeats, whose birth 150 years ago has been cause for a year of celebration throughout Ireland and the world. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Yeats. Maybe I need a Yeats,” he said. Judd Apatow, an Autograph Geek, Hunts for Memorabilia 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z By great good luck, she was taken in and encouraged by leading figures of the Celtic Twilight, including William Butler Yeats. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It's what Auden was getting at when he wrote of Yeats: "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry." EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z The poets represented range from Shakespeare and Marlowe to Yeats and Masefield, and if some of the songs are routine and sometimes rather twee examples of early 20th-century English word-setting, others are far more distinctive. Moeran: Complete Solo Songs 2010-05-27T21:35:00Z Yeats now signals that mere description was not his goal, and in the fourth line he passes judgment on his own, increasingly splendid list. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z But Synge and Yeats were not in pursuit of the picturesque to entertain the Guardian readership. Path to enlightenment: how walking inspires writers 2012-08-09T08:51:33Z I’ve got the “Collected Poems” of W. B. Yeats and Ted Hughes, both of which I did in fact read a good deal of over the summer. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Noh calls for a flutist and three drummers; Yeats requested a drum, a gong and a zither. Music Review | 'At the Hawk's Well': Noh and Celtic Myth at Judson Memorial Church 2010-03-21T20:59:00Z In 1890, William Butler Yeats joined a recently founded magical fraternity called the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Making the Tarot Literary Again 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Their names are planted throughout like grave markers: Frost, Hopkins and Colette; Blake, Dickens and Larkin; Keats, Yeats and Rilke; Basho, Bishop and Neruda — and many more. Books of The Times: Poems on Mortality by C. K. Williams and Cynthia Cruz 2012-12-31T19:22:03Z It was an account of the continuities between Romanticism and Modernism, with the poetry of Yeats at its heart. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z The clouds were so low as the three of us passed through County Sligo that they swallowed Ben Bulben, the storied mountain of Yeats poems, whole. Keeping the Fire of Irish Lighthouses Alive 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z And if he doesn't cite Yeats, with his clay and wattle cabin by "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", that's forgivable: nine bean rows and a hive for honey bees make no sense in ice-locked Siberia. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z Yeats, the album is a tribute to him. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z The elder Yeats repeatedly sent his famous son short stories and other writing and received mostly silence in return. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z All this prompted Yeats to declare, or hope, “Surely some revelation is at hand.” ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z She has a fourth-grade teacher, Mr. Priddles, who heartily dislikes her and makes pronouncements like, “To say that someone called W. B. Yeats is ‘better’ than someone called Sting is a construct, basically.” ‘The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Their many efforts have been blessed by serendipity, including the sudden donation of a valuable item connected to that central Yeats obsession, the revolutionary and actress Maud Gonne. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were acolytes, captivated by Carr’s profane rants about bourgeois culture and the path to transcendence through pure creative expression — his “New Vision,” after “A Vision” by Yeats. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z As Yeats once wrote, “Say my glory was I had such friends.” Perspective | Remembering Norton Juster and other lost literary friends 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Settings of Yeats and Joyce proved a handsome showcase for Mr. Gunn’s velvet sound and clear diction; Ms. Gunn’s arrangements balanced piano and string quartet deftly. Music Review: Nathan and Julie Gunn With Pacifica Quartet at Zankel Hall 2013-04-24T21:51:23Z Yeats, of course, had to take note, writing “Man and The Echo” to pose the ultimate questions, with the echo eerily responding as if in a conversation. Climbing the summits of Irish literature Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” and, if I squeeze my eyes real tight, the final luxurious paragraphs of “The Dead,” James Joyce’s masterful short story. For Future Generations, It’s Time to Reflect on Black Art 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z He would likely have been known to English and Irish readers of the poem when it was published in Yeats’s 1938 collection, “New Poems.” In Ireland, Chasing the Ghost of the Rebel Roger Casement 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The scenes of bickering between Michael and Yeats provide some of the book’s most pleasurable moments. ‘The World of Tomorrow’ captures swirling New York in 1939 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Yeats wrote of another tragically inspiring human drama, that "a terrible beauty is born." Review: Over-the-top beauty begs for more bite 2012-12-06T20:59:13Z It was on Howth cliff walks that Yeats first proposed marriage to Maud Gonne. Climbing the summits of Irish literature Yeats' work revolves around the figure of a man who catches a silver trout that becomes a "glimmering girl" who disappears into "the brightening air" as magically as she appeared. Review: 'The River,' with Hugh Jackman, is a wisp of a fish tale 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Before he became a famous novelist, he was a successful translator of English literature into Spanish who tackled writers as diverse and challenging as Faulkner, Yeats, Wallace Stevens and Thomas Browne. Javier Marias Finds Popularity on the Rise in Britain and the U.S. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It was Yeats who told him to go to the Aran Islands, which gave him his voice. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z He attended Duke, graduated from Harvard in 1948 and earned a doctorate at Wadham College at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, writing his thesis on William Butler Yeats. William Becker, Who Transformed Janus Films, Dies at 88 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Photograph: Martin Mydtskov Rønne WB Yeats once wrote that only two subjects were of interest to the serious mind: sex and death. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z Her 14-minute piece takes its title from a line of Yeats: “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” Review: 19 Female Composers Start to Mark a Century of Suffrage 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The theater’s 2018-19 offerings include a timely look at the origins of the National Endowment for the Arts, visual theater inspired by the poetry of William Butler Yeats, and a monthlong puppetry series. Poetry and Puppets Are Part of La MaMa’s Coming Season 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z “How can we know the dancer from the dance?” as Yeats put it – though ought we still to quote Yeats, what with all that fascist-sympathising? Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z I don’t like to look back at what I’ve done; unlike Yeats, who was notorious for tweaking earlier poems, I try not to revise a poem once it’s appeared in a book. The Icelandic Saga That Keeps Rita Dove Coming Back for More 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Ultimately, though, I’m with William Butler Yeats and would think twice about luring in the fairies. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z If Anna isn’t sure how she got there, there’s even more of a shock when her mother turns up, no longer catatonic but instead reciting Yeats. The Kettering Incident – do you miss Stranger Things? This will tide you over 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “Dublin is where Yeats did a tremendous amount of the political and literary work for which he’s known around the world,” said Margaret Harper, a Yeats expert and professor at the University of Limerick. In Ireland, All Yeats, All Year 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z He attended Princeton University, where he was roommates with future US poet laureate WS Merwin, who introduced him to the works of WB Yeats. Pulitzer-winning poet Kinnell dies 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Someone suggested an auction at which the tall and white-haired Mr. Farrell could pose as Yeats. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Of course, any Irish writer dealing with Wilde and Yeats and Joyce might be expected to struggle with some “daddy” issues himself along the way. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Yeats said we produce rhetoric out of the quarrel with others and poetry out of the quarrel with ourselves. An Expansive New Book From Amanda Gorman, Celebrity Poet and Inaugural Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z There is a quotation – I think I got it from Yeats – that goes: 'Oh Lord, grant me an asylum for my affections.' Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z Yeats used to do, when they did that fairy tale thing? Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z She was thrilled to later move into Yeats’s former house. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Katherine must make a living as the curator of the Celtic Twilight, becoming famous for renderings of the more accessible works of Yeats. An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z There was no evidence of Molly’s rhododendron love nest, but we did see the seaside Yeats family house, Balscadden, which means “the town of herrings” in Gaelic. Climbing the summits of Irish literature It immersed her in a developing Modernism as she read Yeats, Ibsen and the Jameses, Henry and William, along with Bunyan and Blake. Books of The Times: ‘Holding On Upside Down,’ a Biography of Marianne Moore 2014-02-12T22:41:42Z He wasn’t, like Yeats or Wilde, born to the Anglo-Irish gentry. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z They were there on a commission from the Manchester Guardian that resulted in a series of 12 articles for the paper and a 1911 book with illustrations by Yeats. Path to enlightenment: how walking inspires writers 2012-08-09T08:51:33Z He writes, “Houses and flats and rooms had the same power for Yeats as phases of the moon.” Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z The picture was signed by Yeats in pen and ink and by Alice Boughton in pencil on the image and in ink on the back. Irish poets' work sells for £130,000 2013-05-10T11:59:26Z Somehow William Butler Yeats’s poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” which, like millions of other people, I first read in college, stays rooted in me: In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z “It would have been wrong to divert from it. My wife put it beautifully. She said, and this is paraphrasing Yeats, ‘Tread softly because you tread on his nightmares.’” That never happened: the biopic conundrum 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z She quoted Yeats to her friend: “We who are born woman know that one must suffer to be beautiful.” Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Its bold reach and simplicity anticipate Yeats's mature style. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z Of course, there is also an actual girl in Yeats's autobiographical picture at this time: Maud Gonne, who will later be compared to Helen of Troy. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z Enchanted early by Pound—Yeats’s first impression of Bunting was of “one of Ezra’s more savage disciples”—Bunting obeyed Pound’s modernist commandment to “Make It New,” resuscitating and recombining past traditions. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z He had begun laboriously typing out columns of text by Kafka, Yeats, Osip Mandelstam and other writers on fabric, using a manual typewriter. Peter Sacks’s New Paintings at Paul Rodgers/9W 2012-12-23T05:02:36Z Yeats had in mind the spirits and sprites, the elves and fairies, the Fair Folk, imps and goblins; those creatures seen only by children, seers and healers – and poets, of course. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz | Book review 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z The other new work on the program was Mr. Harris’s samba-inspired a cappella “Drinking Song” for men’s voices, set to a poem by Yeats. Review: New Amsterdam Singers Perform a Text-Inspired Concert 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z He wrote another novel, then spent the next several years as a translator, taking on not just novels but poetry, too, including volumes by Wallace Stevens, William Butler Yeats and John Ashbery. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and many other notables studied, then to nearby St. Stephens Green, where a chamber quartet was performing on the lawn, and on to the winding street of pubs in Temple Bar. The World's Best City Walks 2010-08-18T22:45:00Z It reminds me of the Yeats poem in which the speaker, a pilot, lists all of the reasons that don’t explain why he is flying a warplane—a job that he knows will kill him. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z W. B. Yeats in his youth wrote a changeling poem called “The Stolen Child,” whose refrain is “For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Auden in his elegy to W. B. Yeats. “your gift survived it all.” ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Who Cares? 2011-10-27T15:42:53Z As Auden said of Yeats, "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry", but a tradition of writing is also self-perpetuating, self-propelling. Author, author: Nick Laird 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z The show announcement echoed words that appear on William Butler Yeats’s gravestone: “Casting a Cold Eye on Life, on Death.” Joe Henry and the Art of Disappearing Into a Song 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Secondly, I'm a great fan of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The stories of the Christmas hits 2010-12-26T00:55:51Z With a laugh he quotes Yeats, who said that at a certain age women turn either to the distaff or the broom. A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z Yeats termed it, “the dancer from the dance,” is itself just another kind of argument to process. Perspective | Does Linda Fairstein deserve a literary honor? Critics say her past as a prosecutor sullies her art. 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Yeats: “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends; and say my glory was I had such friends.” Susan Choi, Sarah M. Broom win National Book Awards 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z He elevates those dismissed, as William Butler Yeats wrote, by "the noisy set of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen the martyrs call the world" to heroic status. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z As a composer, Mr. Barab was most famous for vocal works, including settings of texts by writers as diverse as Dryden, Yeats and Kurt Vonnegut. Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z After the meal, the party—Blunt plus the other six poets, including Pound and Yeats—posed in front of an ancient stone wall for what became a famous photograph. When Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats Ate a Peacock 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The “disjointed sentences” that resulted so excited Yeats that he proposed to the “unknown writer” who was guiding him that he devote his life to deciphering these apparently coded messages. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z A Yeats cycle of six songs suits the soprano Dawn Upshaw’s declamatory style, too. Classical Playlist: Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Bach and More 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z But the sublimity of Soper’s songful material needs no great explication — just check out her setting of Yeats’s “For Anne Gregory” in “Fragments.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z It’s as if Yeats’s Crazy Jane had decided to speak for herself. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Yeats, born in 1865, the son of an artist, was a childlike intellectual. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Fleming did segue into classical, with renditions of Britten and William Butler Yeats’s “Salley Gardens” and Dvorak’s “Song to the Moon” and Williams sang her pop hit, “Save the Best for Last.” Perspective | Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams sang at the Kennedy Center. And it turned the electricity back on. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Yeats named the poem after an actual place, an island in the middle of Lough Gill, a lake that spreads itself languidly across five miles of furiously green landscape in County Sligo in northwest Ireland. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The band references Ireland’s famed literary tradition — from the works of giants like James Joyce and William Butler Yeats to lesser-known figures like the poet and novelist Patrick Kavanagh — as inspiration. Irish Band Channels the Spirit of Punk, and James Joyce 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Yeats once named Poe “the greatest of American poets,” which does sound absurd. Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z I first heard of him when I was in college and read Yeats’s poem, “The Ghost of Roger Casement.” In Ireland, Chasing the Ghost of the Rebel Roger Casement 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Yeats, spent much of the 1890s in London, eventually memorializing his friends in the Rhymers’ Club as “the tragic generation.” Review | The ’90s are having a literary moment. That is, the 1890s. . . 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z As Auden put it after the death of Yeats: “Earth receive an honored guest.” The Art of Being Critical: Robert Hughes (1938-2012) 2012-08-07T22:19:53Z Exhibits, readings and music, including a visit by Yeats’s granddaughter the harpist Caitriona Yeats later this month. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z I’m a sucker for a man who reads Yeats. David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Let me close with one final tidbit: Did you know that Disraeli, Churchill, Sibelius and Yeats all burdened themselves for years with stomach-churning debt to purchase and maintain their dream houses? Review | ‘Lives of Houses’ is a lovely book to savor while you’re stuck at home 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z One mask depicts Yeats with a swoop of lustrous white hair, his jaw shut by knotted strings. Simon Starling: Modernism Gazing Into the Past 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Plath, Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all figure in this ambitious, linguistics-minded work of futurism, but the real future may just be scarier. Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z “Life is a long preparation for something that never happens,” Yeats warned. Motherlode Blog: The Camp Counselor vs. the Intern 2012-05-29T19:46:29Z But another writer hovers even more prominently: Yeats. Review: 'The River,' with Hugh Jackman, is a wisp of a fish tale 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Pound felt both impulses, as did Yeats a little before him and, after them both, writers like Berryman and Robert Lowell. When Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats Ate a Peacock 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z As the train drew into a grey and rainy Newport, I reached Yeats's Davies selection. Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z Perhaps because I've chosen the wrong translations, I've never been able to share the rapture WB Yeats felt when reading him. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z Yeats wrote, "Man is in love and loves what vanishes, / What more is there to say?" Why "The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie" made 2023 the dead girl summer 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Bill Clinton read widely and counted the poetry of William Butler Yeats and Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man” among his favorites. No more reader-in-chief: After Obama, Trump the nonreader amounts a real national loss 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z In Mr. Ricks’s sly 2004 book “Dylan’s Visions of Sin,” he persuasively compared Mr. Dylan at various points with personages as distinct as Yeats, Hardy, Keats, Marvell, Tennyson and Marlon Brando. Bob Dylan on the Page: Poetry and Prose to Match Any American Writer 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z "He belongs with Joyce, Yeats, Shaw and Beckett in the pantheon of our greatest literary exponents." Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z Thus, as W. H. Auden wrote about the legacy of W. B. Yeats, “The words of a dead man / Are modified in the guts of the living.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Introduced to Noh by Ezra Pound, Yeats adopted its severe style and formal strictures to portray an episode from the saga of Cuchulain, a mythological Irish hero. Music Review | 'At the Hawk's Well': Noh and Celtic Myth at Judson Memorial Church 2010-03-21T20:59:00Z I always return to William Butler Yeats, probably to him more than anyone else, almost entirely for the music and for the way he labored at his craft. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Yeats knew what he was talking about when he said of Swift, “Imitate him if you dare.” Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Opened in 1904, the Abbey grew out of the Irish Literary Theater that Yeats, among others, helped found in a spirit of cultural nationalism. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z Yeats and Robert Frost aside — have had a very difficult time with certain things. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z In 1928, Yeats published “The Tower,” an important collection that contains forever-anthologized poems like “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Among School Children.” The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z One of the introductions Shea was workshopping included the line, “ ’Cause he spits it like Yeats, and he eats what he creates, and he stands at the table like Horatius at the gates.” The Aspiring Writer Who Became an Eating-Contest Emcee 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z As a young man living in London, trying to make a go of it amid the industrial throb, Yeats reached back to his youth and crafted the poem. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The Waterboys An Appointment With Mr Yeats Until 4 February It takes a brave artist to debut nearly two hours of unreleased music, but Scott's confidence in these songs is not misplaced. The Waterboys ? review 2011-02-02T18:34:59Z Kilmer takes Yeats to task for his negative response to the Easter Rising, declaring boldly that "Romantic Ireland never dies!" Poster poems: Easter 2010-03-26T10:58:00Z Poe, like Yeats later on in "Sailing to Byzantium" tries to transfix a notional Golden Age in verse that itself is timeless and hard. Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z WB Yeats asked himself in the 1930s "Did that play of mine send out / certain men the English shot?" When a writer's words have unintended consequences 2011-08-06T15:00:01Z Other donations have also come in, including a €31,000 pledge from Joseph Hassett, an American lawyer and Yeats scholar, and a €5,000 check from a woman enchanted by the famous “winding stair.” The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Theater in Dublin is more than just Yeats nowadays,” Mr. McMahon deadpanned. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z She does remember feeling peculiar on realizing that, in her mid-seventies, she had outlived Yeats, whom she thought of as “that iconic ‘old poet,’ ” and who died at the age of seventy-three. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z My father, Eric Trethewey, was a poet, and very early in my life he began reciting all kinds of poetry to me, especially the poems of Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats and Robert Hayden. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Or as he strolls along its entry passageway lined in oak shelves, with 1,500 volumes of other people’s poetry organized alphabetically from Brontë to Yeats. In the Woods of Greenwich, a Studio for Writing Poetry 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z In 2002 Cunningham was delighted that his company was appearing in Dublin at the Abbey Theater, once home to Yeats. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z There are hints of Ireland's all-time greatest painter Jack B Yeats in the wayward, wandering views. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z Some have speculated that Yeats chose it because of the poetry in the syllables of its name, and the last syllable’s suggestion of freedom. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z To think that people once actually pored over books, scribbled on three-by-five note cards, wrote papers and paid homage to what Yeats called the “monuments of unageing intellect.” Perspective | Remember when high culture was revered? Louis Menand’s ‘The Free World’ made me nostalgic. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Sister de Lourdes Fahy, 78, a respected historian and teacher who was raised on a nearby farm, said her father and uncle often recalled the lifts they gave Yeats in a pony-and-trap. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The book, the title of which comes from Yeats's poem "The Second Coming", has gone on to sell more than 10m copies and has been translated into more than 50 languages. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z Highly literate, with references to Yeats, Alex Haley and the Old Testament. Sinead O’Connor is still in one piece 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z I mean, it’s not Keats or Yeats, or even Wilde, but it’s a hell of a thing. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z We took elective classes in Yeats and Elliot and feminist film theory. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z Actually it’s the grave of another Yeats he refers to, an ancestor. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z In Auden's beautiful eulogy for Yeats, he said, 'He became his admirers,' and I think that's kind of what he had in mind actually. Top 10 tips for writing poetry 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Capital city to an all-star list of playwrights that includes George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and Samuel Beckett, Dublin continues to develop important and inventive talents today. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z In Canto 83, he recalls overhearing Yeats as he composed “The Peacock” downstairs in Stone Cottage, all those years ago: When Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats Ate a Peacock 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It features the poems of Irishman W B Yeats combined with his own music. Adventures of a Waterboy 2012-06-22T16:41:33Z Cindy and her husband Tristan Yeats are both natives of Australia, but recently relocated to Canada, where they welcomed their first child. Baby, parents make road trip to 50 states for world record 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Eliot once declared that Paul Valéry “will remain for posterity the representative poet . . . of the first half of the twentieth century — not Yeats, not Rilke, not anyone else.” Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Never particularly cheerful, Yeats wrote, “I/ Sleepless would lie down and die,” and the echo cruelly commands, “Die.” Climbing the summits of Irish literature He thought it was from the playwright George Bernard Shaw, but reconsidered, brow furrowed, then looked it up on his phone and realized it was from the poet William Butler Yeats. A Comic With Many Questions About Jews and Whiteness 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Heaney was born in the year that Yeats died, and died in Dublin near the house where Yeats was born. Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z With WB Yeats, Gregory co-founded the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous plays for it. Poem of the week: Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory 2010-04-19T08:47:00Z Taking inspiration from William Butler Yeats, Silverstein’s new book is called “My Glory Was I Had Such Friends,” and it chronicles what happened when she was far from home and waiting on a new heart. WATCH: This writer needed a new heart. Here’s how her 9 friends sacrificed for her 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z To illustrate this point, Crowley related an incident from the life of William Butler Yeats, who was deeply immersed in the occult revival of the late nineteenth century. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Here, in the second stanza, Yeats squares up with grand self-confidence to both Irish and classical myth-making. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z “Pound and Yeats are inventing 20th-century theater in the process of total cultural misunderstanding,” he said in an interview. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z His translations of Yeats are equally well known in France. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z “For him, every day he lived was a new adventure,” she once told the Yeats scholar Curtis B. Bradford. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Matthew Fox plays Andy Yeats, a brilliant chemical engineer who gets summoned to a key Middle Eastern petroleum reserve to investigate a potentially catastrophic problem. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to HBO, Hulu, Apple TV+ and More in September 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z A part of Yeats remained, though, through stories shared by neighbors he barely knew. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Then I realized that my meditation was different from Yeats’s. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z But the National Library’s main tribute is its exhibition, “The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats,” now in its 10th year. In Ireland, All Yeats, All Year 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z “I hate Yeats!’ she told the Irish Independent newspaper in 2017. Irish Band Channels the Spirit of Punk, and James Joyce 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Many of the poets of the generation after Yeats turned their backs on symbolism and looked to either reject traditional poetic language or use it in new ways. Poster poems: Roses 2011-04-08T10:04:54Z Tom told him that the references to Yeats and Horatius would lose the audience, but Shea couldn’t bear to cut the line. The Aspiring Writer Who Became an Eating-Contest Emcee 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Smith, who was introduced to the Golden Dawn by Yeats, worked with Waite to draw the pictures on the cards. Making the Tarot Literary Again 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z There is a suitcase bearing a WBY monogram, for example, and a bed once owned by Yeats that the Fahy family bought at an auction after the tower was vacated. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Yeats poem, and makes reference to Gilbert Stuart’s painting “The Skater” and Henry Raeburn’s “The Skating Minister.” Sarah McRae Morton’s painterly talents serve her vivid dreamscapes well 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Yeats admired Blake so much that he tried to claim him for the Irish. Songs of Innocence, Experience and a Galaxy Far, Far Away 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z As every English major knows, Yeats was infatuated with Gonne — his muse, his tormentor, the dark-haired beauty who rejected his many proposals of marriage. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The Charleston bar, with a name inspired by a William Butler Yeats poem, will be at 549 King Street. The Cocktail Bar Dead Rabbit Will Expand to New Orleans and Beyond 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The weaving of rural roots and modern realism helped him to become the most acclaimed Irish poet since William Butler Yeats, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1923. Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z Yeats’s meditations weren’t urban, and neither was mine. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z But the Abbey, led by its illustrious founding director W. B. Yeats, summarily rejected “Tassie.” London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z In a lot of American high schools, you probably read the Oedipus plays and maybe the Yeats poem “Leda and the Swan.” How university trigger warnings will backfire: Does Fox News need any more ammunition against the humanities? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z But some determined local residents — among them a devoted neighbor, an erudite nun and a real estate agent with a useful resemblance to Yeats — have worked hard to forestall the prophesy. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But as a result of the skittishness of Yeats and others, she added, “Ireland got stuck with a kind of calcified, aberrant naturalism.” World War I Returns to Center Stage 2011-07-22T03:01:02Z Tempers fray and flare until the situation resembles a literal enactment of a line from William Butler Yeats: “Great hatred, little room.” Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z Opened in 1965, the centenary of Yeats’s birth, the tower operated as a tourist site for the next 44 years, until devastating floods in late 2009 forced the building’s closing. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z A recurring event is the Harp Festival of Moons, harp concerts planned for each of the 13 full moons of the year, with most held in locations of significance to either Yeats’s life or poetry. In Ireland, All Yeats, All Year 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z In the early days when I went to see him at the interval, he would be reading a Yeats poem. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z The sublime can happen very unexpectedly, as Yeats said. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z What Yeats said was – well, what he said was nothing, not even a thank you, or so the story goes. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Yeats, with the help of the Irish embassy. How to get your James Joyce on and celebrate Bloomsday 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z To cope he memorized long passages of works by writers like Emerson and Yeats, reciting them alone to his bedroom mirror so he would learn to relax his face and gain confidence. Joe Biden and the Arts: No R.B.G. but a Loyal Promoter of Culture 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z But she found inspiration for Lydia and Patti in strange, unexpected places: a Yeats poem, American football coach Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, a former Catholic schoolteacher named Mother Claude. Ann Dowd on The Handmaid's Tale: it's a form of activism 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “Giving those to artists to sort of reflect on, visually and creatively, is the idea,” Yeats said, “as well as to signal to the surrounding communities, ‘We’re doing something different here.’” A House Museum Has a New Message: New York Had Slavery, Too 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z As Yeats memorably wrote, in admittedly different circumstances, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The written word is under siege. A call to arms for all purveyors of truth 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Considered by Robert Lowell as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats," Seamus Heaney enjoys a worldwide reputation as, among other things, a poet academic and translator. Lyrical honour 2011-01-20T07:47:14Z He exists as well in passed-on memories of the tall, remote Yeats, wandering these narrow local roads as he mumbled words destined for the ages. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Here is Yeats on the flighty mother of an artist friend: “She makes me think of lumpy beds, Russian fleas and ipecacuanha wine.” Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z And owning a tower — a castle, if you like – would satisfy what the literary critic T. R. Henn referred to as Yeats’s desire for “cultivated aristocracy.” The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z RR regular littleriver draws our attention to a real gem: "The mysteries of the human heart ripened to perfection in Terry Callier's silky smooth interpretation of The Song of Wandering Aengus by WB Yeats." Readers recommend: songs about gold – results 2012-07-26T15:03:00Z Nixon sweats, steaks bleed and in one amazing scene, the eyes of Richard Helms stare at us in utter blackness – as Helms recites a Yeats doomsday poem and we slouch with him toward Bethlehem. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z They show contemporary poets reading their own works as well as poets and actors reading works by others, including William Butler Yeats and J.M. New York Theaters Are Dark, but These Windows Light Up With Art 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z A similar thing happened with Yeats’s “Tower,” creating a spectral shape made up of words. Peter Sacks’s New Paintings at Paul Rodgers/9W 2012-12-23T05:02:36Z In the Turner-inspired At First Light, the Yeats setting Upon Silence, or A Mind of Winter, which sets Wallace Stevens's poetry, there's no difference between what the music expresses and how it does so. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z Whitman, Stevens, Shakespeare and Yeats are among those who come in for a close-up in these pages. David Duchovny’s hilarious new novel hits a home run 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Yeats observed of the world he saw around him nearly a century ago. ‘Meltdown’ Review: Flirting With Disaster 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Shaw's voice is heard on several poems, including a duet with Edna O'Brien of WB Yeats's When You Are Old. Fiona Shaw: 'I'm not frightened of hard words' 2012-07-17T18:01:00Z And yet one might quote much of Yeats or Shakespeare, having read it once and long ago. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z Yeats and his new wife, George Hyde-Lees, worked with an architect to transform the tower into a sanctuary of inspiration, its walls and curtains awash in striking colors. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium,” itself a meditation on aging and immortality, to May Swenson’s agnostic cry to the body in “Question.” Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z Among this book’s highlights is an essay about Yeats’s tangled relationship with his father, a frustrated writer. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z It's a generous and representative group: Yeats, I think, must have appreciated the folk-singer in Davies. Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z It is filled with a romantic longing for the past: the Irish past, the mythic past and also Yeats’s own. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Yeats Society of New York, the day will mirror an annual event in Sligo, Ireland, where the poet spent time. Spare Times for April 4-10 2014-04-03T23:02:18Z To paraphrase Yeats, by way of Joan Didion, the center does not appear to be holding. "This isn’t 2020": Experts "have serious doubts that the 2024 election will go democracy’s way" 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z “Haunted by syntax,” Glück said she read work by John Keats, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats and British novels as a teen. Louise Glück, former U.S. poet laureate and Nobel winner who wrote with 'austere beauty,' dies at 80 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z “Things fall apart,” W. B. Yeats wrote in his 1920 poem “The Second Coming,” “the centre cannot hold.” She followed her 'doppelganger' down the rabbit hole. What Naomi Klein found there 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z “Troy” is an unusually audacious debut single, a glowering slow burn in which O’Connor comes to terms with the trauma she endured from her deceased mother by riffing on a William Butler Yeats poem. 10 essential Sinéad O'Connor songs 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z He can be quirky; when children visit, he may randomly pull a book of William Butler Yeats off his desk and start reading Irish poetry to them. Inside the Complicated Reality of Being America’s Oldest President 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z The poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and William Butler Yeats published work that put the inhumanity and suffering of the war on full display. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Last year's victor Noble Yeats, runner-up Any Second Now and third-placed Delta Work will all line up again. Grand National preview: Blackmore backed for glory 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Bidding to emulate Noble Yeats, who last year was the first horse aged seven - since Bogskar in 1940 - to win the National. Pinstickers' guide to the Grand National 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Last year's winner Noble Yeats, runner-up Any Second Now and third-placed Delta Work are all set to line up. Line-up confirmed for Grand National at Aintree 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Last year's winner Noble Yeats, runner-up Any Second Now and third-placed Delta Work are all set to line up in Saturday's Grand National. Bravemansgame prevented from running at Aintree 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z He would stand in front of a mirror and speak lines from Yeats and Ralph Waldo Emerson, straining to avoid the contortion of his face muscles. Biden and Irish poets: ‘Hope and history,’ a lifelong love 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Noble Yeats, trained by Emmet Mullins, could become just the third horse to win the Gold Cup and the Grand National after L'Escargot and Golden Miller. Blackmore seeks Gold Cup repeat with A Plus Tard 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Same age as last year's winner Noble Yeats - the first seven-year-old to win in 82 years. Pinstickers' guide to the Grand National 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z On that morning in Naples, I sensed in the dancing figure of the Chimera an echo, not so much of a millenarian Christian Yeats but of something closer to the earth religions. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Biden recommended that the boy read a book by one of his favorite Irish poets, William Butler Yeats, to help him envision speech like a poem. Biden’s State of the Union Prep: No Acronyms and Tricks to Conquer a Stutter 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z “But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce ‘that great past to a trouble of fools.’ Biden and Irish poets: ‘Hope and history,’ a lifelong love 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z But I think Noble Yeats will be transformed and after winning the National last year I think it will be a rare double. Blackmore seeks Gold Cup repeat with A Plus Tard 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Usually ridden by one of the Welsh trainer's sons, but Sean is on Noble Yeats and James is injured. Pinstickers' guide to the Grand National 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z “The center was not holding,” Didion wrote in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” bending a line of William Butler Yeats poetry. Remembering Joan Didion, beyond her words 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Blevins was a Norfolk Admirals hockey fan and enjoyed photography and collecting coins, daughter Cassandra Yeats told The New York Times. ‘Missing my baby’: Six killed in Virginia Walmart shooting 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Blevins loved Norfolk Admirals hockey games, photography and collecting coins, said his daughter, Cassandra Yeats. ‘We Were a Family’: Victims in Walmart Shooting Had Bonded on Overnight Shift 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Biden worked to draw out Xi, quoting William Butler Yeats or offering an aphorism he said came from his father: “The only thing worse than war is unintended war.” As Biden and Xi meet, can their old connection avert a clash? 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Verdict: Cases can be made for plenty of runners, with Vanillier and Le Milos preferred, and Noble Yeats likely to run well again. Pinstickers' guide to the Grand National 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z As William Yeats would have defined it, the form is what distinguishes the dancer from the dance. A bilingual California poet honors migrants — both the living and the dead 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Ezra Pound and W.B Yeats were among the first poets he read closely. Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Yeats that Sullivan invokes after the reporting tour where so many people told her they no longer believed in fact-based, public-service journalism: Review | Journalists are failing our fragile democracy, a media insider says 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The 20th-century Irish poet William Butler Yeats thought that way too, apparently. Review | YouTube’s Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak, takes his essays to the page 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The imagery in many of his poems was lifted straight from the waters and glens of that region, which he called the “Land of Heart’s Desire,” and is known to others now as Yeats country. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z I have included another great poem about war: “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” by Yeats. Words of War: A Literary Lifeline for the Battlefield 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z If the rules had been in place earlier this year, Grand National winner Noble Yeats would have been disqualified. Jockeys face disqualification in whip crackdown 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z It was an eighth Gold Cup victory for O'Brien, who won the race four times with Yeats from 2006 to 2009. Kyprios wins dramatic Gold Cup at Royal Ascot 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Which brings me back to Tarantino and Yeats. Review | YouTube’s Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak, takes his essays to the page 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z While the barman poured me a clouded black pint, we spoke of Yeats, whom he considered “the best poet since Shakespeare.” A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Yeats is talking about the brutality of soldiers in Ireland’s War of Independence — 100 years ago — but I see the horrors of fighting in Syria, in, Afghanistan, in Bosnia. Words of War: A Literary Lifeline for the Battlefield 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z A joke he made at a state dinner about William Butler Yeats and the clash between the Irish and British fell flat, drawing crickets from his Korean hosts. Travel once energized Biden, but Asia trip offers little relief from political woes 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Arrived with Yeats and helped turn Liverpool from a mediocre second-tier side into a force. Who makes your all-time Liverpool XI? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Puschak argues that all of Yeats’s poems “expand, deepen and qualify the other poems in the oeuvre.” Review | YouTube’s Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak, takes his essays to the page 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Ireland does have the aspect of a human heart — a real one: west coast aortal peninsulas and an inner hinterland where “hill heaped upon hill,” as Yeats wrote, rolls with a smooth, muscular gloss. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z He said this partnership would go beyond security in Korea to include cutting edge technology and a global strategic partnership, then drew a laugh from Biden by quoting Irish poet William Butler Yeats. US, SKorea open to expanded military drills to deter North 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z The film is dense with references to everything from Ulysses to the Bible to Yeats to Agamemnon to the Green Man and sheela na gig, mysterious ancient carvings found on churches throughout Europe. Let's talk about that 'Men' ending with the people who created it 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The vicar at one point literally quotes from Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan,” a poem about violation and impregnation by the Greek god Zeus, while in the guise of a bird. Review | The horror film ‘Men’ is as hard to forget as it is to pigeonhole 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z We are living, after all, through a dangerous period in which, as William Butler Yeats once wrote, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.” Op-Ed: The unofficial tree of Los Angeles reigns again 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z From Yeats’s original gaze over this foreign countryside, to a book, to me, then back again. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Lacking finish and sophistication, such works expose what Yeats memorably called “the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.” Review | Finding wisdom in Charles Baudelaire’s mad scribblings 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z For the young me, poetry stood for aural enchantment, eliciting what Yeats once called, in “An Irish Airman Foresees his Death,” “a lonely impulse of delight.” Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z While there were celebrations for the Noble Yeats team, there was one equine fatality, with Discorama suffering an untreatable pelvic injury when running on the flat between fences. ‘A fantasy’ - the story behind amateur jockey’s Grand National fairytale 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z In a dramatic end to a race run before a crowd of around 70,000 spectators, Noble Yeats reached the last of the 30 fences neck and neck with 15-2 favorite Any Second Now. Amateur jockey wins Grand National in retirement race 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z It was evidence of the passage of my life as much as it was of Yeats’s. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, who has won a record six times in other races over the National fences, announced on Thursday he will be riding for the last time when he partners Nobel Yeats. Grand National preview and pundit predictions 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z For example, Leithauser hesitantly picks “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” Yeats’s ballad about love found, lost and ever after longed for, as the most beautiful poem in English. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Horse is a son of Yeats, who won the Gold Cup at Ascot four times on the flat, but there has been no seven-year-old Grand National winner since Bogskar in 1940. Pinstickers' guide to the Grand National 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Yeats to declare, “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.’ White House reunion is latest sign of Biden-Obama friendship 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Named after Yeats’s childhood house at Rosses Point, the Elsinore offers traditional Irish, Italian and vegetarian dishes. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z It was an easy opinion to have, sitting across the Atlantic in America, reciting a lot of Yeats and rereading Frank O’Connor’s “The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution,” but it was real. 'Belfast' isn't my favorite movie in the Oscar race. But it gave me the most hope 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z In 1921, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats conveyed a sense of dark times ahead in the poem “The Second Coming”: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Yeats’s poem “The Fascination of What’s Difficult”: Is “Ulysses” hard because it’s great, or do people assume it’s great because it’s hard? Opinion | D.C. and Joyce — Both Incomprehensible 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z "The problem now, as Yeats would say, is that the center cannot hold": The center cannot hold: Manchin and Sinema are wrecking America — here's how to beat them 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The Yeats Society hosts an exhibition on the people and places that influenced the life and career of the Irish poet. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Yeats and Virginia Woolf, blend times, emotions, memories and bodily sensations in ways that reflect our own ambiguous plotlines. Perspective | The pandemic has given us a bad case of narrative vertigo. Literature can help. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Or, as Yeats put it in his "Second Coming," Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. Boy, do we need a "deep state" now — but not the way the Trumpers mean it 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z While he was still a part-time student, working full-time as a firefighter, he wrote the letter to The Times Book Review challenging Oates’ definition of Yeats as a universal poet. Dennis Smith, Firefighter Who Wrote Bestsellers, Dies at 81 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Yeats, Paul Valery and other poets, a major address on the unity of European culture and much, much else, all of it superbly annotated. Review | T.S. Eliot may have been flawed, but a new book reminds of his greatness on the page 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Yeats Building open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Yeats captures the sense of being unmoored, the ways we grasp for patterns and stories, and how those, too, are upended as we wait to see what “Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.” Perspective | The pandemic has given us a bad case of narrative vertigo. Literature can help. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z At the time, I had no idea that “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” was a reference from a Yeats poem. The Doors' John Densmore remembers Joan Didion, Eve Babitz and Jim Morrison 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Her 1968 essay collection "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," a title borrowed from poet William Butler Yeats, looked at the culture of her native California. Writer Joan Didion, chronicler of contemporary American society, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Yeats’ bleak poem “The Second Coming,” she begins with the observation that the “center is not holding” in a culture awash in bankruptcies, evictions, runaway children, absent parents. Joan Didion dead, writer chronicled American culture with cool detachment 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z This forest, the setting of Yeats’s “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” is on the shores of Lough Gill and offers a long walking path. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Yeats was watching his own narratives fall apart during the pandemic. Perspective | The pandemic has given us a bad case of narrative vertigo. Literature can help. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z He was reading a poem by Yeats, he recalled, when he “decided to write poetry the rest of my life.” Robert Bly, towering American poet, dies at 94 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The New Yorker magazine called the film, which borrowed its title from another Yeats work, "an intimate, affectionate, and partial portrait." Writer Joan Didion, chronicler of contemporary American society, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z “One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life,” he recalled in a 1984 essay for the Times. Robert Bly, Poet Who Gave Rise to a Men’s Movement, Dies at 94 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z An approximately 50-foot-high waterfall, mentioned in Yeats’s “The Stolen Child,” is located at the end of a short, paved walk. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The auction will take place on 23 November and will feature works by artists including Henry Moore, Bridget Riley, Samuel Peploe and Jack Butler Yeats. LS Lowry: Painting expected to fetch more than £1.2m at auction 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Biden occasionally flubs the line as he did during a virtual call with Jewish leaders before Rosh Hashana earlier this month when he changed Yeats’ line to make it more optimistic, if less poetic. ‘A terrible beauty’: Here’s why Biden keeps coming back to the same Yeats poem 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z And Biden has quoted Yeats before while talking about the Middle East. Opinion | A Rough Beast Returns 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z It's so basic that William Butler Yeats just called his poem “The Choice.” The best of Boz Yeats was born in Dublin and raised for extended stints in County Sligo, on the northwest coast. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z He will be confident of adding to his tally of 73 Royal Ascot triumphs, and hoping Stradivarius can emulate Yeats by winning a fourth Gold Cup. Royal Ascot to start with 12,000 crowd 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The White House didn’t respond to a question about Biden’s repeated use of Yeats, but the president often offers his own explanation when he transitions to the line. ‘A terrible beauty’: Here’s why Biden keeps coming back to the same Yeats poem 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z When Yeats writes about darkness dropped in the sands of the desert and a slouching “rough beast” with “a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,” he could be describing the Taliban. Opinion | A Rough Beast Returns 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z In his first speech after landing in Britain on Wednesday, he invoked a passage from a favorite poem, “Easter, 1916,” by William Butler Yeats, about the Irish uprising against British rule. Queen Elizabeth II Welcomed the Bidens to a Private Tea at Windsor 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Alas, the Yeats Society was fringed with construction, and the opening of its new exhibit was delayed. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Her homage to Yeats is as good, and as precise, as it gets. Column: Sinéad O'Connor isn't looking for sympathy with her new memoir, just a little truth 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z “I think he’s someone who is very attentive to symbolism and what cultural symbols do and he has that in common with Yeats as well.” ‘A terrible beauty’: Here’s why Biden keeps coming back to the same Yeats poem 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z He managed to quote Yeats during a hearing on U.S.-China relations. Irish humor, Irish temper: How Biden’s identity shapes his political image 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z “Between Republican attacks and Democratic complaints I was reminded of the Yeats poem ‘Second Coming,’” Mr. Obama wrote in the book. Democrats, Pushing Stimulus, Admit to Regrets on Obama’s 2009 Response 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z At a nearby bookstore, I asked the proprietor for a Yeats recommendation. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Sinéad O’Connor has written a memoir called “Rememberings,” and if you think you know what to expect, you’d best brush up on your Yeats. Column: Sinéad O'Connor isn't looking for sympathy with her new memoir, just a little truth 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Yeats’ poem is his meditation on the Easter Rising, which saw Irish rebels declare an Irish Republic and then occupy Dublin’s General Post Office and other key buildings in the city. ‘A terrible beauty’: Here’s why Biden keeps coming back to the same Yeats poem 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z As Yeats put it: "For words alone are certain good: Sing, then" Poet Amanda Gorman leaves CNN's Anderson Cooper 'transfixed' by her personal mantra 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z There is a literary grandness, to be sure — references to Hemingway and Yeats and dramatic renderings of moments high and low captured in sometimes Sorkin-esque dialogue. Review: Barack Obama's memoir is a masterful lament over the fragility of hope 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Yeats, too, is buried in a modest grave at Drumcliffe Church. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Yeats; one of her most popular songs, “Troy,” is based on his poem “No Second Troy.” Column: Sinéad O'Connor isn't looking for sympathy with her new memoir, just a little truth 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The uprising was quelled by the British Army and 16 of the rebellion’s leaders were executed by the British government, including some personally known by Yeats. ‘A terrible beauty’: Here’s why Biden keeps coming back to the same Yeats poem 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z From Yeats’s declaration that “time’s levelling winds” erase even the monuments of the mighty, to Joni Mitchell’s lament that “we can’t return, we can only look behind from where we came,” the truth abides. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The teenager said that Biden “told me about a book of poems by Yeats he would read out loud to practice.” Opinion | Joe’s Fearsome Weapon Against Trump: Simple Decency 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Violence abated 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The birth of Yeats’s daughter, Anne, in February was also freighted with danger. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Yeats seven times since June, according to White House transcripts, including twice in one day this week in remarks focused on the wildfire response in Idaho and California. ‘A terrible beauty’: Here’s why Biden keeps coming back to the same Yeats poem 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Yeats' lines from "The Second Coming" get quoted too often, because they're irresistible: Donald Trump's cosplay fascism, neoliberal capitalism and the pandemic: How did we get here? 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z In a tone somewhere between those of writer Samuel Beckett, film-maker Woody Allen and poet W. B. Yeats, he asks what happens when we’re faced with the prospect of both individual and global demise. Preppers, bunkers and emaciated polar bears 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Yeats and his poem “The Stolen Child” is the album’s last song, followed by 50 seconds of bouzoukis and violins cutting through a highland mist to play Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.” 33 life-affirming albums to help get you through self-quarantine, according to music experts 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Events conspired to put Yeats in an apocalyptic frame of mind. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z “All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born,” Yeats wrote in 1916 in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Dublin, a six-day rebellion against British rule in Ireland. ‘A terrible beauty’: Here’s why Biden keeps coming back to the same Yeats poem 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z “All changed, changed utterly,” Yeats wrote, and though his poem was about a distant fight in another century, his words echo today, as a chastened world confronts the coronavirus. Opinion | Of all our tragedies, this pandemic feels the most life-altering 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Irish as a boiled carrot, I always celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in my usual way, hollering Yeats’ “The Wild Swans at Coole” on street corners and small social gatherings of doctors and deadbeats. Chris Erskine: When cabin fever strikes, I try board games and an icy 'quarantini' 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z He draws from an impressive range of sources, such as poets William Butler Yeats and Sylvia Plath. From Big Bang to cosmic bounce: an astronomical journey through space and time 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Evident, too, in the drafts is Yeats’s painstaking refinement of each line. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Yeats’s line about the best lacking all conviction. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z “A terrible beauty is born,” Yeats wrote in his haunting refrain, about Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising. Opinion | Of all our tragedies, this pandemic feels the most life-altering 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Then there’s the sterling “became”: nothing is left of Yeats but others’ thoughts of him, and the thoughts of him enhance the others, like badges. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z But, of course, things make poetry and art happen: the death of W. B. Yeats, in Auden’s case, and the causes, events, and consequences of human suffering, in that of “Theater of Operations.” The Art of War in “Theater of Operations” 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Shortly before running for president in 1968, Robert F Kennedy warned: “Indeed, we seem to fulfil the vision of Yeats.” 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Her mother, an Irish actress and playwright, performed under Yeats’s direction at the Abbey Theatre, in Dublin. Fanny Howe Makes Sense of Beginnings and Endings 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “They reopened it without actually resolving the issue,” said Yeats, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in the Takoma neighborhood. D.C. finds elevated lead levels at 17 public school playgrounds 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Ever since the biblical prophet Isaiah, enshrined on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling and in the poetry of William Butler Yeats, burning coal has represented pain’s ability to purify and cleanse. Review: At LACMA, Betye Saar's distinctive assemblage art probes American racism 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z His treatment of the folktale as literature—innovative, even subversive at the time—puts him in company with Yeats, Stevenson, Poe. Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z In an age of shocking reversals, Yeats’s theory of historical cycles – “day & night, night & day for ever,” as he once put it – rings true. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z His latest book, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, is published by Penguin this week. Colm Tóibín: ‘A book wouldn’t improve Trump’ 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Yet Molly can be almost unbearably earnest, capable of seriously reciting a celebrated Yeats line, asking New York to “tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.” Review: Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson make ‘Late Night’ a great night 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Hailed as Ireland’s greatest poet since WB Yeats, Heaney won the 1995 Nobel prize for literature for “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth”. Seamus Heaney’s words heal wounds reopened on Ireland’s border 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Nominally aimed at the elementary school crowd, it is also the work of animators pleasing themselves, pulling a phrase from Yeats here, nodding to "Peanuts" music there. Reviews: ‘Costume Quest,’ ‘Victor and Valentino,’ ‘Lazor Wulf,’ smart cartoons for young and/or old 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Yeats was justified in taking the long view. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z When did you get the idea to write a book about the fathers of Joyce, Yeats and Wilde? Colm Tóibín: ‘A book wouldn’t improve Trump’ 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Baker, like Yeats, was an elegist even before he’d suffered much loss. Poetry That Bears Witness to a Changing Natural World 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He filled small notebooks obsessively, copying all of Yeats into one, selections of Dickinson into another. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z One of Ireland's most enduring and beloved verses, Yeats' poem was inspired by a small lake island in County Sligo that he visited as a child. 5 inspiring Irish poems to read this St. Patrick’s Day — or recite at the pub 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Whether or not it is Yeats’s greatest poem, it is by far his most useful. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z In 2017, Ms. Fleming gave several performances of a song cycle he wrote, “Lyrical Yeats.” André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry,” Auden says in his eulogy for Yeats. How Iran’s Greatest Director Makes Art of Moral Ambiguity 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z One section chronicled a trip to Ireland: “Passages from Yeats . . . Seamus’s phone number . . .” A tuft of wool floated from between the pages. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The poem showcases Yeats' desire for a simpler life, far from the cities where he spent much of his adulthood: 5 inspiring Irish poems to read this St. Patrick’s Day — or recite at the pub 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The first stanza is a series of punchy declarations about a crisis of authority, almost as if Yeats were an op-ed writer in full thunder. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z I thought of the sublime conclusion of Yeats’s “Among School Children”: “O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, / How can we know the dancer from the dance?” Sally Wen Mao Writes Visionary Poems for a Blinkered World 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z No one who likes Yeats is capable of human intimacy. Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Yeats “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Forget the shutdown, it’s Mattis that matters 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z A copy of William Butler Yeats' "The Wanderings of Oisin," inscribed by Yeats to Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, sold for $54,000. James Joyce's glasses fetch $19,000 at auction 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z He routinely quoted the verse of William Butler Yeats: “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” Opinion | We never met a man as remarkable as George H.W. Bush — and we never will again 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z It first appeared in a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1919, a line that Achebe used in his work. 'Hakuna Matata' and other unlikely trademarks 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z “Oh, my God, that was so ill-advised, trashing Yeats!” she told me, seeming more amused than chagrined. Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Leda and the Swan is also a classic poem by William Butler Yeats, a major figure in 20th-Century literature. Erotic fresco unearthed in Pompeii 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z About 100,000 soldiers returned to Ireland after the Armistice to "a country changed... changed utterly", in the words of the poet William Butler Yeats. Armistice note discovered in Dublin house 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z He was a boy of the fin de siècle: he read Wilde and Yeats, loved his favourite green suit and grew his hair floppy and long. Into the dark water: Philip Hoare on the life and death of Wilfred Owen 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Yeats’s apocalyptic “The Second Coming” comes to mind: Editorials from around New England 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z He told me he loved Yeats, can you believe that? Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z In December of 1962, after failed attempts to reconcile with Hughes, Plath closed up Court Green and moved to an apartment building in London where Yeats had lived as a child. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Hughes had grown up with Yeats and Eliot, and was often linked with Wordsworth, but there was one writer with whom he was particularly obsessed: Shakespeare. How Shakespeare's 'blood cult’ became Ted Hughes’s fatal obsession 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z It was not unusual for the program notes for his works to feature literary quotations from the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, Herrick, Spinoza, Blake, Whitman, Yeats, Neruda and other sources. Paul Taylor Dies at 88; Brought Poetry and Lyricism to Modern Dance 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z In Sligo, as the Yeats summer school gathered next door to discuss Yeats and Asia, the woman in the tourist office asked me: “Do you know who Constance Markiewicz was?” England must start to listen to its neighbours on these troubled isles | Martin Kettle 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Yeats hoped it would establish his reputation as a major poet, “justifiably, as it turned out”, Kelly said. Stolen WB Yeats letters identified at Princeton University 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z “Well, here I am! Safely in Yeats’ house!” she writes to her mother. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z However, “he specifically said that he didn’t want to ‘put out Yeats’, who already has a longstanding exhibition,” says Collins. Seamus Heaney’s family on life with the great poet: ‘He was always just Dad at home' 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Cassidy opened a small tavern and called it Innisfree, after a W. B. Yeats poem about an uninhabited island, which is inscribed in the Irish passport. Guinness Poured by an Irishman at Inwood’s The Liffy II 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Travelling to WB Yeats country on the Irish west coast, reading Roy Foster’s biography of the poet as I did, then stopping at the National Famine Museum at Strokestown, the Anglo-Irish dimension loomed very large. England must start to listen to its neighbours on these troubled isles | Martin Kettle 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Another letter refers to a dispute over whether four portraits of Yeats should be grouped together in the collected works, as Yeats thought they had agreed, before discovering Bullen wanted them scattered throughout the edition. Stolen WB Yeats letters identified at Princeton University 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The prince boarded the LÉ William Butler Yeats ship as a symbol of the close maritime links between the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Prince Charles meets Sinn Féin leaders 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z A quoter of Aeschylus and Yeats, and heir to his brother’s legacy, RFK spoke of uniting the country, of seeking to “do better.” Opinion | Politics were unimaginable without RFK. Then they were unimaginable with him. 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming,” with its imagery of spiraling disintegration. Brie Ruais puts all of her body weight into each sculpture she makes 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z We are creatures capable of the fugues of Bach, the verses of Yeats, the stories of Twain, the creations of Dalí and, for that matter, the mathematics of Gödel, Ramanujan and Turing. On "Darwinism" 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Yeats was cross, but kind of amused at the same time.” Stolen WB Yeats letters identified at Princeton University 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The LÉ William Butler Yeats embarked on a three-month deployment in the Mediterranean last year during an intensive period of the European migrant crisis. Prince Charles meets Sinn Féin leaders 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Yeats, a skilled carpenter, would fix the Mooreses' chairs and tables when they got wobbly. In the path of gentrification, a Seattle coffeehouse finds a way to grind it out 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” and borrowing the new album’s name from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five.” Review: Moby returns to his moody, trip-hop best on new CD 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z “It brought to light one of my favorite quotes from William Butler Yeats: 'Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.'” In rallying around an ailing friend, a golf community's bond extends beyond the game - Golf Digest 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Kelly, the general editor of the Collected Letters of WB Yeats, recalled feeling disconcerted that he could have missed an entire collection of significant letters. Stolen WB Yeats letters identified at Princeton University 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Yeats wrote a poem of the same title. After ‘So Much Sadness,’ What Is There to Be Thankful For? 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Carrasco decided to hold Yeats' memorial at C&P, and made it a fundraiser with donations earmarked for the coffee shop's survival. In the path of gentrification, a Seattle coffeehouse finds a way to grind it out 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, America was changing utterly, and, to borrow a phrase from William Butler Yeats, “a terrible beauty is born.” An excerpt from 'Playing With Fire' 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z In his own defense, Schlesinger quoted Yeats: “I have said all the good I know and all the evil. I have kept nothing back necessary to understanding.” Why another Arthur Schlesinger, presidential historian, is unlikely 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z A collection of unpublished letters written by WB Yeats that was stolen in the 1970s and returned “anonymously” has been identified at Princeton University. Stolen WB Yeats letters identified at Princeton University 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Yeats, who has an 8-month-old daughter with her female partner added, “I fail to see how extending this right to minority groups takes anything away from anybody else.” Gay Parents Become Activists in Australian Marriage Debate 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z As for Yeats, Carrasco says, "He didn't love a lot of people, but he loved Cameron. He called her his sunshine girl." In the path of gentrification, a Seattle coffeehouse finds a way to grind it out 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Yeats was referring to the failed Irish revolution against British colonial rule in 1916. An excerpt from 'Playing With Fire' 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Yeats poem “The Choice” to capture the dilemma that particularly confronts the gifted: “The intellect of man is forced to choose/Perfection of the life, or of the work.” Priority No. 1 for Phil Mickelson - Golf Digest 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The 17 letters were written to his publisher, Arthur Bullen, and publishing assistant, Edith Lister, when they were working on Yeats’s collected works. Stolen WB Yeats letters identified at Princeton University 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Another mother, Kristy Yeats, said, “This debate seems to be really about kids – and queer parenting. We’ve really felt that acutely.” Gay Parents Become Activists in Australian Marriage Debate 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z But all of this came to a halt in late 2017, when Yeats died after fighting cancer. In the path of gentrification, a Seattle coffeehouse finds a way to grind it out 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Enough that even Yeats would have applauded his attempt to find perfection in both. From the archive: Roberto De Vicenzo: ‘The choice I made’ - Golf Digest 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The procedure was eagerly taken up in 1923 by neurologist Sigmund Freud and in 1934 by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. Ageing: Rejuvenation study stirs old memories : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z He was husband to Iseult Gonne, daughter of Maud Gonne - the woman who was a muse to W B Yeats. Eric Luke on 43 years of photojournalism - BBC News 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z William Butler Yeats won a Nobel Prize for his Irish-themed poems and plays. The Seattle Times 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Gibraltar Admiralty marshal Liam Yeats, said: “The vessel is under arrest and is currently at anchor in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.” World's largest sailing yacht impounded in Gibraltar 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Gibraltar’s Admiralty Marshal Liam Yeats said Monday the vessel was under arrest and is currently at anchor in the British enclave’s territorial waters. Sleek superyacht seized in Gibraltar over $16.2M debt claim 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z As Yeats put it, because I had to… Read Full Transcript of President Obama Honoring Joe Biden 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z IN “Easter 1916,” the Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote these following lines about the people who would become the martyrs of his country’s revolt against British rule: Honoring MLK’s vision and the power of words 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z She studied English literature at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Glasgow, but despite her love of WB Yeats, she was pragmatic even as a student. Regina Ip: The 'Iron Lady' who wants to lead Hong Kong - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z He quoted WB Yeats’s 1919 poem, The Second Coming: “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Pope calls for peace in world's conflict areas in Christmas Day message 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Yeats declined to discuss details in line with Gibraltar court policy. Sleek superyacht seized in Gibraltar over $16.2M debt claim 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z William Butler Yeats believed humanity moved in long cycles. Is it time for a sea change in American politics? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Now, to borrow from another Yeats poem, there will be no second coming of the Clintons, and it will be Donald Trump slouching toward Washington. The Clintons were undone by the middle-American voters they once knew so well 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z One of the loveliest things I know is Christie Moore’s setting of Yeats’ “The Song of Wandering Aengus”. Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z When WB Yeats was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, the Catholic Bulletin denounced the prize as "the substantial sum provided by a deceased anti-Christian manufacturer of dynamite" and as the promotion of Paganism. Between the sheets: Banned books censors didn't want you to read - BBC News 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Pound showed the Noh texts to Yeats, and the Irish master loved them, both for their austerity and, above all, for their inclusion of the immaterial world. Simon Starling Revives the Spirit of Yeats 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z As Auden wrote of Yeats’s death: “he became his admirers”. Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Yeats — “Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.” The Clintons were undone by the middle-American voters they once knew so well 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Radio 2's Bruce will read WB Yeats' poem The Song Of Wandering Aengus at the special service, while Lumley will recite a poem specially commissioned for the event. Sir Terry Wogan: stars to pay tribute at memorial - BBC News 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Yeats described the writing life best when he said: “Do not hurry; do not rest.” Tracy Chevalier: ‘Writing is a magic trick that still surprises me when I perform it’ 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Then, in 1909, Yeats met the American poet Ezra Pound, who would soon be working on translations of Japanese Noh drama, a highly stylized form dating back to the fourteenth century. Simon Starling Revives the Spirit of Yeats 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z WB Yeats’s advice to writers, “Do not hurry, do not rest”, is relevant here. My best writing tip by William Boyd, Jeanette Winterson, Amit Chaudhuri and more 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Yet in a year already defined by Brexit, terrorism and police shootings—not to mention the discombobulating Presidential election—it is hard to avoid the conclusion that, as Yeats wrote, the center cannot hold. Is This Election the Baby Boomers’ Last Hurrah? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z I observed with shock and embarrassment mobs of people rally behind a man who gazes out at America with eyes, as Yeats put it, “as blank and pitiless as the sun.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The Khans Are America's Wake-Up Call 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z He quoted the poetry of William Butler Yeats and the novels of his fellow Hoosier, Kurt Vonnegut. John Brademas, Indiana congressman and House whip in 1970s, dies at 89 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z “Between extremities / Man runs his course,” wrote Yeats, whose politically inclined lyricism substantially influenced Rich’s work. The Art in Adrienne Rich’s Activism 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z And the late Christopher Hitchens was known to launch into Yeats’s An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, which he claimed was irresistibly seductive. Harry Potter play exposes the social apartheid in our theatre | Peter Bradshaw 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z On May 31 Miss Shaw will host an evening of the reading of texts by W.B Yeats and Emily Dickinson. Irish independence centennial to be celebrated at Kennedy Center’s ‘Ireland 100’ 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Actor and director Fiona Shaw, the festival’s official artist-in-residence, will deliver several Yeats poems in her evening of dramatic readings, “Blowing the Heart Open,” on May 31. ‘Ireland 100’ brings three weeks of performances to Kennedy Center 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z This reminds me of the poem by the great Irish poet WB Yeats, where the best lack all conviction, and the worst are full of passionate intensity. President Obama offers support to embattled Angela Merkel - BBC News 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Mariani persuasively numbers Stevens among the twentieth-century poets who are both most powerful and most refined in their eloquence, along with Rilke, Yeats, and Neruda. The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z B. Yeats famously declared that “only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind: sex and the dead.” Tales of writerly death 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Yeats reflected Ireland’s conflicted feelings about how violent nationalism appeared to be hastening Ireland’s journey to political freedom but at a debatable cost. Ireland Recalls 1916 Easter Rising Against British Rule 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s no surprise that Yeats himself wrote a poem called “The Harp of Aengus,” in which the title character has “made a harp with Druid apple-wood/ That she among her winds might know he wept.” ‘Ireland 100’ brings three weeks of performances to Kennedy Center 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z "My Golden Days" casually throws together references to the ancient Greeks and the poetry of Yeats alongside post-punk and hip-hop music. Director Arnaud Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric reunite in the deeply emotional 'My Golden Days' 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z It was a William Butler Yeats quote from “Easter 1916”: Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. Looking for America: Longing for something lost 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The daughter of stallion Yeats has recorded two wins from two career starts so far, and attempts to give her trainer - yes, you've guessed it, Willie Mullins - an eighth Festival Bumper success. Cheltenham Festival 2016: From Willie Mullins to Victoria Pendleton 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Ireland's foremost poet WB Yeats would probably also have been disappointed, had he lived to see it. The man who blew up Nelson - BBC News 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z “The best lack all conviction,” Yeats wrote, “while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” In the West, the political center holds — but barely 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Yeats: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The absence of U.S. leadership makes the world more dangerous than ever 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z —W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” How con$ervatives betray conservatives: A conservative explains how grifters, buck-rakers and scoundrels have poisoned his movement 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Yeats” See More » Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote. My 10 Favorite Books: David Benioff 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z On one hand, all is changed, changed utterly, in the years since King’s death, as the Irish poet William Butler Yeats said about a different era of political transformation. Martin Luther King, Rachel Dolezal and Donald Trump: The recurring story of race that has shaped our history 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z “It might not sound like Yeats, but it has as much power as Yeats,” he said. Bringing Poetry to Rikers Island, Where ‘They Can’t Cage Your Mind’ 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Yeats had not, of course, predicted the quake. Geophysics: Vast forces underfoot : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z To paraphrase William Butler Yeats, most Americans believe this is no country for anyone but the rich. Americans see a government of, by and for the rich 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z I lost count of how many newspaper columns I read quoting WB Yeats’s The Second Coming: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Vuvuzelas, Pistorius and Mugabe’s warped rule: my six years in Africa 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Spiritualists hosted suffragette leader Susan B. Anthony’s first speech at a time when it was illegal for women to speak in public, and author William Yeats found inspiration in the Spiritualist technique of automatic writing. Discover the Tiny Town That Sees Ghosts All Year Round 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z He was referring to Yeats’ Ireland, and to the inner workings of poetry, but, whenever I read it, I think of my home town. Intifada Childhood 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Where Yeats expounds on the destructive power of quakes, Force posits that they may have rocked the cradles of past civilizations. Geophysics: Vast forces underfoot : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z For the physics researcher Andrew L. Yeats, a light-bulb moment led to an important new insight. An Error Leads to a New Way to Draw, and Erase, Computing Circuits 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The professors will discuss Yeats’ influences on literature. Albany museum hosting symposium on Nobel-winning Irish poet 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z He was a West Point graduate who also earned a master’s degree in English literature from Columbia University and reveled in the poetry of William Butler Yeats. John R. Galvin, NATO commander at the close of the Cold War, dies at 86 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Auden, in his elegy for Yeats, spoke of the “raw towns that we believe and die in.” Intifada Childhood 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Yeats duly discusses the usual suspects, such as San Francisco, Tokyo, Istanbul and Santiago. Geophysics: Vast forces underfoot : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z There’s a line from Auden in his elegy to Yeats where he says Ireland hurt him into poetry. Louise Penny: Bestselling Mystery Discusses Her New Novel 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. Albany museum hosting symposium on Nobel-winning Irish poet 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Even Yeats, one of the most celebrated Irish poets, described teaching as “the lighting of a fire.” What It Really Takes To Become an Elementary School Teacher 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Yeats’ “The Second Coming,” written in 1919, is my nominee for the most cited poem in political commentary. When Yeats comes knocking 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z She chose a phrase from Yeats’s “The Second Coming” for the title, and, in September, “The Hippie Generation: Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” with photographs by Streshinsky, was a cover story in The Saturday Evening Post. The Radicalization of Joan Didion 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Still, Yeats said both candidates “failed equally miserably.” Progressive movement confronts its own 'demons' on race 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z In that letter, the Yeats family said they were “satisfied beyond doubt” that their father’s body was buried in Drumcliffe cemetery. French documents suggest remains in Yeats's grave are not poet's 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z In that letter, the Yeats family said they were "satisfied beyond doubt that our father's body is indeed buried in Drumcliff Cemetery". WB Yeats: Fresh doubt that Sligo grave contains poet's remains - BBC News 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z This changes later when he dons a crow’s mask, and Scott puts on a three-faced harlequin number and starts quoting Yeats. Glastonbury 2015 live: Burt Bacharach, Sleaford Mods, Adele and the build up to Kanye West 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z It was written in a notebook in 1909 by the poet William Butler Yeats when he was 44: The Single Best Piece of Marriage Advice Ever Given 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The royal couple's itinerary also includes visits to a number of cultural and historical sites, including the County Sligo grave of Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet, William Butler Yeats. Prince Charles to begin four-day Ireland visit - BBC News 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z I’m reminded of the William Butler Yeats poem, which ends beautifully: “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends.” Samantha Power to Grads: Start Changing the World By 'Acting As If' 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The bank bought the work of young contemporary artists, which was cheap, as well as the work of Yeats, Orpen and Lavery, which even in the 1980s was not. Paint the town green: the hidden history of Irish art 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z This changes later when he dons a crow’s mask, and Scott puts on a three-faced harlequin number and starts quoting Yeats. Glastonbury 2015 live: Burt Bacharach, Sleaford Mods, Adele and the build up to Kanye West 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Dr. Abrams used the metaphors of the mirror and lamp — derived from a poem by William Butler Yeats — to illustrate how the purpose of artistic expression changed over time. M.H. Abrams, literary scholar who edited Norton Anthology, dies at 102 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “With an almost manic abruptness, the nation seemed, as Yeats once wrote, ‘all changed, changed utterly,’” wrote Time magazine. When Earth Day changed the world 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Around that time, in Ireland, Yeats, one of Merrill’s masters, had, under the sway of his wife, made contact with spirits who had come to give him “metaphors for poetry.” James Merrill’s Supernatural Epic 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z In 1903, W. B. Yeats wrote a play, “The King’s Threshold,” about a poet in seventh-century Ireland who launches a hunger strike at the gates of the royal palace. Where the Bodies Are Buried 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, many of the changes underway call to mind the evocative words of Irish poet William Butler Yeats that, “Education is not about filling a bucket but lighting a fire.” Leading The Future Of Learning Through Four Key Trends 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The poet WB Yeats wrote about her in some of his most famous poems. Weekendish: The best of the week's reads 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z It is called On a Child's Death, and it is clearly inspired by Maud Gonne's dead son, and her consequent grief - though when he wrote it Yeats still thought Georges was adopted. Ireland's heroine who had sex in her baby's tomb 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z His first bit of directing was a production of Yeats’ “Purgatory.” Newsweek's 1966 Profile of Mike Nichols: Director as Star Almost a century after he wrote it, we now have a political version of William Butler Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming”: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The 2016 contenders’ weaknesses Yeats: “An aged man is but a paltry thing,/A tattered coat upon a stick.” Searching for the Fountain of Youth 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z |
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