Tag Archives: W.B. Yeats

Happy (Belated) Birthday, William Butler Yeats

Posted on June 14, 2009 by sheila

William Butler Yeats was born yesterday, in 1865. Yeats is a great poet and all that, but I grew up pretty much “over” him because he was kind of omnipresent in our household. We were made to memorize his epitaph … Continue reading →

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Yeats On a Mural

Posted on May 21, 2009 by sheila

I love every single word of this post, and I’ve read it, oh, five times, just because it pleases me.

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Today in history: January 26, 1907

Posted on January 26, 2009 by sheila

Until I get my words back for real, blogging will continue to be photo-oriented, a Facebook version of my blog. I cannot write right now. I am not myself. But today is an important anniversary and one that has family-connections … Continue reading →

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Books I bought online in a fugue state on December 29

Posted on January 17, 2009 by sheila

They are all arriving now, and it feels, already, like visitations from a ghost of the long-distant past. — The letters of Maud Gonne and WB Yeats — Maud Gonne’s autobiography — Shane Leslie’s memoirs — Conor Cruise O’Brien’s memoirs … Continue reading →

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Cast a cold eye

Posted on January 13, 2009 by sheila

… On life, on death Horseman pass by — WB Yeats’s epitaph When we were small children, our dad made us memorize the epitaph in order to get part of our allowance (which was all of 75 cents). So all … Continue reading →

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Maud Gonne: “The Pilgrim Soul”

Posted on December 21, 2008 by sheila

Maud Gonne, Irish revolutionary, feminist, radical, and lifelong poetic muse of William Butler Yeats, was born yesterday in 1865. She married John MacBride (after a couple of notorious affairs and illegitimate children). John MacBride was an Irish nationalist who participated … Continue reading →

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“It is to be a bond of the spirit only.”

Posted on July 20, 2008 by sheila

Fantastic article about the new Yeats exhibit going on at the National Library in Dublin – which will (pretty please) eventually come to the States, if a library/museum steps up to the plate to host it. (That’s one of the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats

Posted on June 13, 2008 by sheila

William Butler Yeats was born today, in 1865. Yeats is a great poet and all that, but I grew up pretty much “over” him because he was kind of omnipresent in our household. We were made to memorize his epitaph … Continue reading →

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Today in History: January 28, 1939

Posted on January 28, 2008 by sheila

William Butler Yeats died. And, of course, Yeats makes me think of my father. My first published piece in The Sewanee Review was about the Yeats-dad continuum. From memory now! And when I hear this poem, in my head – … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month: William Butler Yeats

Posted on April 14, 2007 by sheila

I wrote about my affection for this poem here – it was just a part of my childhood because of that Clancy Brothers album … I didn’t even know it was Yeats at the time! Of course his later poems … Continue reading →

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