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), ...
On W. B. Yeats: The Man & the Milieu by Keith Alldritt & W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865–1914, by R. F. Forster. The veils surrounding the twentieth century’s greatest poet, ...
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 ...
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It is not often that a poem functions as a major plot point on a TV show. But on the most recent episode of The Sopranos, a morbid A.J. Soprano—suffering from depression after a breakup—is roused from ...
THESE letters are so stimulating that one sits, pencil in hand, making frequent underlinings. They are the observations of a good man, a sound artist and critic, a rich mmd, a responsive heart. And ...
First Irish Nobel Laureate, William Butler Yeats was an organic bridge between Orient and Western countries, and specifically between Indians and Irish which is quite amply manifested in his writings.