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  • Crash Ensemble at Carnegie Hall - New York Times (2013/05/20 13:50)
    Crash Ensemble at Carnegie HallNew York TimesMr. Dennehy used poems by William Butler Yeats for his song cycle “That the Night Come,” scored for an ensemble including piano and accordion. Mr. Dennehy composed the work for Ms. Upshaw, who expressively conveyed its wide range of emotions.
  • Michael Barbour of Syracuse walks away with $16500 on 'Who Wants to Be a ... - Syracuse.com (2013/05/20 10:47)
    Michael Barbour of Syracuse walks away with $16500 on 'Who Wants to Be a ...Syracuse.com... he ended on was: What poet's 1823 work "Don Juan" is commonly credited with introducing the phrase "truth is stranger than fiction"? The possible answers given were A) Rudyard Kipling; B) Lord Byron; C) Alfred Tennyson; and D) William Butler Yeats.and more »
  • Words & Music at Carrick Water Music Festival - Leitrim Observer (2013/05/20 08:38)
    Leitrim ObserverWords & Music at Carrick Water Music FestivalLeitrim ObserverBorn in Carrick-on-Shannon in 1866 Susan Langstaff Mitchell was an Irish writer and poet, known for her satirical verse. She was assistant editor of The Irish Homestead under George Russell and later The Irish Statesman. She knew William Butler Yeats, ...
  • En brittisk generation dömd till undergång 1914-1918. Rupert Brooke, Wilfred ... - Tidningen Kulturen (2013/05/18 16:02)
    En brittisk generation dömd till undergång 1914-1918. Rupert Brooke, Wilfred ...Tidningen KulturenTre av de mest kända av Englands så kallade ”War-Poets” var Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), Rupert Brooke (1897-1915) och Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). Den förste anses numera vara den främste av de tre. Hans poem ”Anthem ... sitt utseende som för sin ...
  • Why Common Core Foes Don't Bother Looking at the Examples of Books to Read - Dropout Nation (2013/05/16 10:50)
    Why Common Core Foes Don't Bother Looking at the Examples of Books to ReadDropout NationMeanwhile middle school English teachers can assign such classics as Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, English poet William Butler Yeats The Song of Wandering Aengus, and Langston Hughes' I, Too, Sing America. By high school, teachers can assign ...and more »
  • Dawn Upshaw and Crash Ensemble at the Kennedy Center - Washington Post (2013/05/15 17:44)
    Dawn Upshaw and Crash Ensemble at the Kennedy CenterWashington Post... Music series, was actually a kind of belated album tour for a CD that came out in 2011, joining two works by a young Irish composer few had heard of, one of them — “That the Night Came,” a setting of six William Butler Yeats poems — written for ...
  • Winterblue Theatre - Isthmus Daily Page (2013/05/15 15:11)
    Winterblue TheatreIsthmus Daily Pageby William Butler Yeats Two of the Nobel Laureate's "plays for dancers", inspired by Japanese Noh drama, featuring live music, painted masks, stylized movement, and of course Yeats' exquisite poetry. Two chapters in the mythic life of the great Celtic ...
  • "Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions" at MoMA, An Essential Film Series ... - Twitch (2013/05/15 06:04)
    Twitch"Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions" at MoMA, An Essential Film Series ...Twitch... in its mixture of reality and fiction physical memorabilia of the factory, a rich musical soundtrack including Chinese patriotic songs, romantic tunes, the Internationale, and Chinese opera, as well as quotes from Chinese poetry and William Butler ...
  • The Waterboys An Appointment With Mr. Yeats - Glide Magazine (2013/05/14 21:54)
    The Waterboys An Appointment With Mr. YeatsGlide MagazineNurtured by bandleader Mike Scott over a period of two decades, the album's exalting music, roiling ("The Hosting of the Shee") and reflective ("Song of Wandering Aengus), has its inspiration in the verse of the genius Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
  • GALWAY: Walking in footsteps of Shaw and Yeats - Irish Examiner (2013/05/12 19:33)
    GALWAY: Walking in footsteps of Shaw and YeatsIrish ExaminerEven 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 (2013/05/12 09:36)
    SalonKerouac: Angel-headed hipsterSalonThere are already more than half a dozen extensive biographical treatments, and many of his letters have now been published, including Road Novels, 1957–1960, his Complete Poems in the Library of America series (2007, 2012) and The Portable Jack ...
  • New biography shows how 'Narnia' author CS Lewis' intellect, imagination were ... - Kansas.com (2013/05/12 07:04)
    Kansas.comNew biography shows how 'Narnia' author CS Lewis' intellect, imagination were ...Kansas.comOne 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 ...and more »
  • World records tumble at Bonhams £750000 Poetry Sale - Art Daily (2013/05/11 15:48)
    World records tumble at Bonhams £750000 Poetry SaleArt DailyHandwritten 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 ...
  • Irish poets Wilde and Yeats' work sells for £130000 at auction - BBC News (2013/05/10 05:00)
    BBC NewsIrish poets Wilde and Yeats' work sells for £130000 at auctionBBC NewsDraft copies of William Butler Yeats' poems, Are You Content? and The Spirit Medium, were sold for £15,000. A famous photograph of Wilde taken in New York and signed by the poet went for double the estimated price at £16,250. It was the work of ...How Much Are Great Poems Worth? (Part 2)Huffington Postall 2 news articles »
  • Art Review: John Douglas - Seven Days (2013/05/08 06:52)
    Seven DaysArt Review: John DouglasSeven DaysMaybe it's the “terrible beauty” William Butler Yeats saw being born from the ashes of Irish rebels' failed rising in his poem “Easter, 1916.” “Stone &,” digital photographs by John Douglas, Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne. Through May 21 ...
  • Herbert Blau, Pioneering Theater Director, Dies at 87 - New York Times (2013/05/07 19:18)
    New York TimesHerbert Blau, Pioneering Theater Director, Dies at 87New York TimesHe wrote a dissertation on T. S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats. Mr. Irving, whom Mr. Blau had met at ... Correction: May 8, 2013. An earlier version of this obituary misspelled the surname of a poet who was a subject of Mr. Blau's dissertation. He is ...and more »
  • Morgan: Fairies add whimsy to weekend - Covington News - Covington News (2013/05/02 16:02)
    Morgan: Fairies add whimsy to weekend - Covington NewsCovington NewsChaucer, the great poet of the Middle Ages, created a Fairy Queen in his Canterbury Tales. William Shakespeare invented fairies called Oberon, Titania and Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet William Butler Yeats ...
  • Free Will Astrology - Artvoice - Artvoice (2013/05/01 21:16)
    Free Will Astrology - ArtvoiceArtvoiceasked Irish poet William Butler Yeats. “A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” A woman may show similar bravery, of course. In my astrological opinion, that's the noble adventure beckoning to you, Libra: a dive ...and more »
  • Free Will Astrology - TheStranger.com (2013/05/01 08:45)
    Free Will AstrologyTheStranger.comasked Irish poet William Butler Yeats. "A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself." A woman may show similar bravery, of course. In my astrological opinion, that's the noble adventure beckoning to you, Libra: a dive ...
  • Your future, a little early - Missoula Independent (blog) (2013/05/01 08:03)
    Missoula Independent (blog)Your future, a little earlyMissoula Independent (blog)asked Irish poet William Butler Yeats. "A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself." A woman may show similar bravery, of course. In my astrological opinion, that's the noble adventure beckoning to you, Libra: a dive ...and more »
  • Rediscovered masterpieces to be exhibited in Belfast and Dublin ahead of ... - Art Daily (2013/04/30 20:08)
    Rediscovered masterpieces to be exhibited in Belfast and Dublin ahead of ...Art DailyThe group will be spearheaded by a rediscovered seascape by Roderic O'Conor, a painting by Paul Henry last seen in 1973, John Butler Yeats' tender portrait of his son, the poet William B. Yeats, an important tapestry by Louis le Brocquy, and a seminal ...
  • Do Poets Peak Young? Don't Believe It - Huffington Post (2013/04/30 12:02)
    Huffington PostDo Poets Peak Young? Don't Believe ItHuffington PostIn 2004, James Kaufman declared, "Poets peak young." 2013-04-30-William_Butler_Yeats_by_Pirie_MacDonald_1933_wikimediacommons.jpg. William Butler Yeats (1933). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The psychologists' analysis rests on the ...
  • Poet Eamon Grennan Delights at Evening Reading - The Daily Gazette (2013/04/29 21:30)
    Poet Eamon Grennan Delights at Evening ReadingThe Daily GazetteGrennan referenced his discussions with the Contemporary Irish Poetry class earlier that day and said he wanted to include William Butler Yeats in his reading. He quoted Yeats' famous words, “Even when a poet seems most himself, a poet never speaks ...
  • Ken McAlpine's new book is regret as seen through a road trip - Ventura County Star (2013/04/27 17:08)
    Ken McAlpine's new book is regret as seen through a road tripVentura County StarMcAlpine infuses this with poetry cites from Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot. He weaves in sea turtles as metaphor: The journey of leatherbacks scientists still don't know where they go for much of their lives parallels ...
  • Kahn and Selesnick Get Weird With 'Truppe Fledermaus And The Carnival At ... - Huffington Post (2013/04/26 13:47)
    Kahn and Selesnick Get Weird With 'Truppe Fledermaus And The Carnival At ...Huffington PostTo the waters and the wild" writes William Butler Yeats in his poem, "The Stolen Child." Yeats's darkly seductive promise of a new world comes to life in Kahn and Selesnick's new photo series titled, "Truppe Fledermaus And The Carnival At The End Of ...
  • Hundreds pay tribute to McMahon - Tasmania Examiner (2013/04/26 05:53)
    Hundreds pay tribute to McMahonTasmania ExaminerHe was thrilled to discover that Mr McMahon was an adventurer who took to his own sport of rock climbing with enthusiasm as well as sharing a love for the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Many at the funeral were rock-climbing mates or those who had ...
  • Guggenheim's 'No Country': A sign of the times - Jakarta Post (2013/04/26 00:29)
    Jakarta PostGuggenheim's 'No Country': A sign of the timesJakarta PostAligned with the growing recognition of the world's interconnectivity, “No Country” — the title credited to a William Butler Yeats poem — works with the idea of borderlessness, which is a topic of economic and artistic discourse today. That the ...
  • ROSEN: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun (2013/04/23 21:36)
    ROSEN: So Long and Thanks for All the FishCornell University The Cornell Daily SunPure poetry. If the Romans had “Carpe Diem,” then I guess we have YOLO. But on a more serious note, while Drake might make Rebecca Black look like William Butler Yeats, I do somewhat agree with his sentiment. Over the past year as a regular columnist ...
  • 3 LIMRA takeaways—Bourbon Street edition - LifeHealthPro (2013/04/22 14:51)
    LifeHealthPro3 LIMRA takeaways—Bourbon Street editionLifeHealthProIt's been eight years since Katrina and it is in these labyrinthine alleyways of the Quarter that I'm most reminded of a line from the poet William Butler Yeats, “All things fall and are built again.” During a keynote address at LIMRA, economist and ...
  • Juniata Choral Union Concert Offers Multicultural Music - Juniata College (2013/04/22 08:17)
    Juniata Choral Union Concert Offers Multicultural MusicJuniata CollegeTwo selections "Song of the River," and "Down by the Sally Gardens," which is based on a poem by William Butler Yeats, are based on the same English folksong, "Salley Gardens." Irish history is at the heart of another folksong-based selection, "Cockles ...
  • PENINSULA PROFILE: Poet helps 'beloved community' speak through the ... - Peninsula Daily (2013/04/21 00:35)
    PENINSULA PROFILE: Poet helps 'beloved community' speak through the ...Peninsula DailyThe professor feels the same way, and quotes William Butler Yeats when describing her philosophy. “Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire,” wrote the Irish poet. Back in Port Angeles, Reavey sees her fellow writers building such a fire ...and more »

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