William Butler Yeats first appears, in the memories of his contemporaries, as a rarefied human being: a tall, dark-visaged young man who walked the streets of Dublin and London in a poetic hat ...

Family treasures linked to William Butler Yeats are to be handed over ... Other items include the top hat worn by Yeats when he received the Nobel prize and two passports, dated 1916 and 1923.

William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a hundred years ago, when the world seemed on the verge. Perhaps like now, perhaps like many years. The losses of the First World War were still ...

When I was there studying years ago, a friend and I were riding the bus late one night and carrying on a (probably well-lubricated) conversation about William Butler Yeats. We were talking loudly ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Looking through the Atlantic archives on William Butler Yeats ...

It soon became apparent that Yeats and other members of the London chapter were uncomfortable with Crowley’s interpretation of their practices and rituals: They decided Crowley would no longer ...

Irish author William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature on November 14, 1923. We take a look at Yeats' life. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats ...

One hundred years ago, on this day in 1923, the winner was the Irish modernist William Butler (WB) Yeats. But instead of disputing each year's winner, scrutinising the contexts around these ...

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) published his first poem in The Nation in 1933; his last appeared three months after his death. Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / William Butler Yeats ...