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She was born in Ireland’s County Kerry and seems to fulfill a kind of Yeatsian fantasy of the woman from the west who’s gifted in song.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022

The finest poem she set there, a multipage elaboration of an Amazonian folk tale, “The Riverman,” has the Yeatsian radiance of a land beyond human discourse.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2017

He always liked poetry at school and even wrote some: "soft Celtic twilights, Yeatsian wind among the reeds sort of thing".

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2013

“For Jack, there was the Yeatsian beauty of the rider-less horse with the boots on backwards and the beautiful Kennedy family,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Auden's way was very different, circumspect; his poetry achieved greatness but never reached out for Yeatsian grandeur.

From Time Magazine Archive