Throw a rock and you’ll hit a poem about romantic love. Poems about aging are a little harder to find (though we will forever be in a swooning state about W.B. Yeats’ “When You Are Old”).

Yeats once said, "'Write for the ear, I thought, so that you may be instantly understood as when an actor or folk singer stands before an audience." Here the words roll across one screen, while ...

Why Terry Wogan chose this poem. As everyone you’ve asked to contribute will say, it’s impossible to pick just one favourite Yeats poem. But this is the one that has always touched my heart ...

You have had no love affairs of consequence. When Yeats, a 51-year-old bachelor, once again proposes to Maud Gonne (the Irish actress and political activist with whom he’d fallen in love as a ...

RECENT celebrations of the great Irish poet W B Yeats (1865-1939) have included a fascinating appreciation of his life and work by Bob Geldof on BBC4. Here are two of Yeats’s short but best ...

Liverpool legend Ron Yeats, who was best remembered for captaining the Reds to two league titles and an FA Cup trophy, died on September 7 at the age of 86.

Seventy-five years ago today—on January 28, 1939—William Butler Yeats died at a boarding house on the French Riviera. He was 73 years old, at the height of his fame and glory.

The poet W.B. Yeats was born 150 years ago this week. In rural Ireland, a nun whose family has a personal history with the poet has turned a one-room schoolhouse into a small Yeats museum.