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 ...
W. B. Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many poets ...
A young girl in the indolence of her youth, Or an old man upon a winter’s night.