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Hace 3 días · University Communications | January 2021. A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney.
Hace 1 día · The poem concludes with a thorough evocation of William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: “Far away the gathered prayers lift their lonely petitions / even as the acolyte without a concern in the world / snuffs each candle and drags his way / back through the sacristy into a world / hurrying to dinner, a world / where fields matter little and decisions / get made with easy and ...
Hace 4 días · Tony O’Reilly, those present at the business giant’s funeral were told, would often recall William Butler Yeats to summarise his own view of friendship. “Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends,” quoted Tony O’Reilly jnr, as he delivered his fathers eulogy to a crowded Donnybrook church on Thursday morning.
Hace 4 días · “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats was first published in 1899 in his third volume of poetry, “The Wind Among the Reeds.” The poem is notable for its simple yet profound language, expressing a yearning for love and the beauty of dreams.
Hace 5 días · Description. Title. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) Creator. From the Collection: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Published / Created. [1909]-57. Description. Includes letters from John Masefield, Robert Bridges, Edmund Gosse and others. Provenance. The papers were purchased from the estate of Ezra Pound and the poet's daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz, in 1973.
Hace 1 día · "Hound Voice" by William Butler Yeats a read aloud with the textYeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and mystic. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923...
Hace 5 días · William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) fu uno dei più importanti letterati d’Irlanda. Di buona famiglia, protestante, autore poetico e teatrale, portò agli estremi la ricerca del folklore locale, già avviata da altri letterati tra cui la madre di Oscar Wilde, a sua volta scrittrice di fama.
