A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...
On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...
Yeats, ‘Certain Noble Plays of Japan’, Essays ... Vintage Books/Random House, 1951), 36. This famous formulation is echoed by Seamus Heaney in defining poetry as ‘our imagination pressing back against ...
Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...
American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness" ...
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Ireland's first ever Olympic medal was won by a famous artist in an unlikely categoryThe name Yeats is synonymous with the arts in Ireland, but few people know that one of Ireland’s most famous artists ... a life in the arts, WB leaning heavily into poetry while Jack was a ...
A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...
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