William Butler Yeats, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, was born in Ireland 150 years ago this week, and across the country, the Irish are celebrating with public readings and festivals.

The poetry of WB Yeats is central to the Yeats Day Festival, now in its 14th year. Once again, our global hashtag - YeatsDay - social media event invites people across Ireland and the world to recite ...

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

Alvin Langdon Coburn’s portrait of W. B. Yeats, from the book Men ofMark, 1913. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” declares Oscar Wilde, “Give him a mask and he will tell you the ...