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GALWAY: Walking in footsteps of Shaw and Yeats
Irish Examiner
Even as William Butler Yeats was composing such classic poems as 'The Wild Swans at Coole', his brother Jack was busy with his sketch pad, vividly portraying everything from the local donkeys to his brother. After leaving the Visitors Centre, we set ...

Kerouac: Angel-headed hipster
Salon
Johnson then wonders whether there might have been an inherent danger for Kerouac in becoming what William Butler Yeats called, in an essay about modernist, stream-of-consciousness writers, “a man helpless before the contents of his own mind.” Virginia ...

New biography shows how 'Narnia' author CS Lewis' intellect, imagination were ...
Kansas.com
One of the great ironies of British literature is that some of the best writers in the English language have been Irish: James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney. Few readers would think of adding C.S. Lewis to that list. But ...

World records tumble at Bonhams £750000 Poetry Sale
Art Daily
Handwritten draft copies of William Butler Yeats poems 'Are you content' and 'The spirit medium' made £15,000. This surpassed the previous record of £5,000 for a Yeats poem at auction. New benchmarks were also set for Phillip Larkin whose 'Love' sold ...