I first heard WB Yeats’s poetry spoken aloud not by the reedy-voiced poet himself intoning on an early recording, or by a teacher at high school or a friend at university, but on an album that ...
Mike Scott continues a decades-long love affair with the words of Irish poet WB Yeats on An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, an album of brilliant, mystical music worthy of Yeats’s immortal words. I bought ...
One of Ireland’s premier jazz singers interprets the works of one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, as Christine Tobin performs songs from her award-winning album, “Sailing to Byzantium,” this ...
Internationally recognized as one of America's leading artists of the time, Richard Diebenkorn produced six prints to accompany the 1990 publication Poems of W.B. Yeats, which included 145 of Yeats' ...
Years of campaigning will come to fruition this week with the unveiling of a sculpture in Bedford Park to the great writer Homesickness often brings fellow expats together and drives the creative ...
In his 1892 poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats fantasizes about a life lived in solitude on an island in Lough Gill in Ireland, where the poet spent his summers as a child. Earlier this year, as a ...
Mike Scott continues a decades-long love affair with the words of Irish poet WB Yeats on An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, an album of brilliant, mystical music worthy of Yeats’s immortal words. I bought ...