Yeats
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Jack Butler. 1871–1957, Irish painter
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his brother W ( illiam ) B ( utler ). 1865–1939, Irish poet and dramatist. His collections of verse include Responsibilities (1914), The Tower (1928), and The Winding Stair (1929). Among his plays are The Countess Cathleen (1892) and Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902); he was a founder of the Irish National Theatre Company at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1923
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That is a thin harvest—and thinner still since Yeats was Irish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Yeats; in another he salutes Allen Ginsberg and other Beat poets; in a third he devotes the entirety of the piece to Arthur Rimbaud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
As the poet William Butler Yeats observed after the end of the First World War, the center is not holding, while the best lack all conviction.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2025
She’s immersed in Yeats and Irish folk tales while being bored at school reading “Fun With Dick and Jane.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
I’m enclosing a poem by Auden on the death of Yeats cut out from an old London Mercury from last year.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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