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4 days ago · W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet born on the 13th of June, 1865. He is considered a largely Irish poet, although he ran in British literary circles as well, and he was a big part of the resurgence of Irish literature.
4 days ago · Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The rebellion was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed.
3 days ago · Nonetheless, Cole’s decision to trace both Yeats’s and Auden’s developing relationships with poetry’s ‘aspirational’ strain, particularly through their more popular works, demonstrates the fruitfulness of applying a utopian framework to poetry, a form which Cole persuasively argues is ‘singular’ for bridging the ideas of ‘utopia as desire and utopia as genre’ (p. 187).
1 day ago · L.C.R. Duncombe-Jewell Friend of Yeats and Crowley, Foe of Otters and Democracy
1 day ago · The 2024 Hedge School events begin with a two day Creative Writing Workshop facilitated by David McLoghlin. David is a prize-winning poet, a creative nonfiction writer and a literary translator. The workshops will take place at the Thomas MacDonagh Museum from 11am-1pm on Wednesday and Thursday September 18th-19th.
2 days ago · Statue of Clarice Lispector at Leme Beach in Rio de Janeiro, 2016. Like dangerous talismans, Clarice Lispector’s novels stage unholy communions—between human and cockroach, reason and madness ...
4 days ago · The exhibition title comes from W.B. Yeats’ poem Sailing to Byzantium, which speaks of the quest for eternal beauty and spiritual transcendence. In the poem, Byzantium symbolizes an ideal world of artistic and intellectual perfection, a place where the soul finds peace beyond the physical.
