Composed and published in 1917, this title poem of the 1919 book “The Wild Swans at Coole” appears alongside such other famous poems by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) as “The Scholars” and “An Irish ...

The last time William Butler Yeats asked Maud Gonne to marry him was in the summer of 1916. He expected, and likely hoped, to be turned down yet again. Gonne had rebuffed him at least four times ...

Maybe it was not so much the green fields or ancient abbeys but the swans that most enchanted me in Ireland. Especially the autumn swans at Coole Park in County Galway, of which W.B. Yeats wrote ...

Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats “The trees are in their ...

Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats “The trees are in their ...

Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats “The trees are in their ...

Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats “The trees are in their ...

The Wild Swans at Coole has some major poems, and some minor ones a reader might prefer. It is elegiac and back-looking, written mainly in the midst of our first great world war.

Dear Annie: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats “The trees are in their autumn ...