A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats' most political poems, "Easter 1916," was auctioned Wednesday in Dublin, drawing $9,600 from an anonymous ...

It made the slain rebels into plaster saints. That cannot have been Yeats's intention. Easter 1916 is a great poem not just because of that unforgettable echoing line or because of how his words ...

The poem that defined the era of the Easter Rising is "Easter, 1916" by William Butler Yeats. Here, Irish Ambassador to the US Daniel Mulhall explains in an essay who are the unlikely heroes Yeats ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats’ most political poems, “Easter 1916,” was sold Wednesday at Adam’s auctioneers in ...

The poem's refrain, "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave," is one of Yeats' best-remembered and most-quoted lines. In "Easter 1916," meanwhile, Yeats deals with the ...

Yeats's passion, yearning, pursuit and eventual renunciation of Gonne is an electrical current in the poetry and the life. Easter 1916? The great matter of Ireland, the Troubles, as they have come ...

the hub of the Easter Rising 90 years ago, and Kilmainham Gaol, where several of the rebels were executed. The poem is read by Jim Norton. Read Easter 1916, by WB Yeats.

I had a short poem by William Butler Yeats pretty accurately by heart ... than simply to please. In “Easter 1916” and “Meditations in Time of Civil War” the interwoven historical and ...

Easter eggs and bunnies are about it in secular contributions to the feast. If you dig a bit, you can find some seasonal poetry. Perhaps the best known is W.B. Yeats, “Easter, 1916,” which isn ...