At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism. Simon Starling, still from “At Twilight / The Hawk’s Dance” (2016), ...
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 ...
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A LMOST forty years ago I wrote, but didn’t publish, a few little essays about meetings with interesting contemporaries of mine. One of these was about my first meetings with W. B. Yeats. At that time ...
In the poem, 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,’ W. B. Yeats expressed his personal feeling for his beloved Maud Gonne, an English-born-Irish actress, suffragette, and revolutionary. Today, on the ...
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The genius of great poets almost always reveals itself early. But many of the sublimest works of the acknowledged masters were composed while the poets were either fast approaching old age or more or ...
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