When he died, Samuel Beckett wrote that " Yeats is the great of our time ... he brings light as only the great dare to bring light to the issueless predicament of existence.

In a late essay on Shelley, Yeats wrote, " I have re-read Prometheus Unbound ... and it seems to me to have an even more certain place than I had thought among the sacred books of the world.

" The group's manifesto, which Yeats wrote, declared, " We hope to find in Ireland an uncorrupted & imaginative audience trained to listen by its passion for oratory ... & that freedom to experiment which is not found in the theatres of England, & without which no new movement in art or literature can succeed.

It featured an introduction by her friend William Butler Yeats, who wrote several pieces based on the legend, including the plays On Baile's Strand ( 1904 ), The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), At the Hawk's Well ( 1917 ), The Only Jealousy of Emer ( 1919 ) and The Death of Cuchulain ( 1939 ), and a poem, Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea ( 1892 ).

Bax ’ s poetry and stories, which he wrote under the pseudonym of Dermot O ’ Byrne, reflect his profound affinity with Irish poet W. B. Yeats and are largely written in the tradition of the Irish Literary Revival.

Maud Gonne wrote to Yeats " No I dont like your poem, it isn't worthy of you & above all it isn't worthy of its subject ... As for my husband he has entered eternity by the great door of sacrifice ... so that praying for him I can also ask for his prayers ".

With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.

) In his introduction to the former, Yeats wrote " I think this book is the best that has come out of Ireland in my time.

While Yeats and his followers wrote about an essentially aristocratic Gaelic Ireland, the reality was that the actual Ireland of the 1930s and 1940s was a society of small farmers and shopkeepers.

The generation of Irish poets who followed Yeats were, to simplify, divided between those who were influenced by his early Celtic style and those who followed such modernist figures as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, both of whom wrote poetry as well as their better known fiction and drama.

He has a Master's degree in literature from Duke University, where he wrote a thesis on the Irish poet W B Yeats.

W. H. Cummings composed the cantata The Fairy Ring, and William Butler Yeats wrote of them in The Land of Heart's Desire ( 1894 ).

Yeats wrote and created the artwork for " Elementary Brush-Work Studies " ( published in 1900 ), an educational book that teaches young children the technique of painting flowers and plants using her simple method.

In addition to the title poem, the last epic-scale poem that Yeats ever wrote, the book includes a number of short poems that Yeats would later collect under the title Crossways in his Collected Poems.

Of Dorothy, Yeats wrote, " she looks as if her face were made out of Dresden china.

In April 2007 Tom Nolan wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal suggesting that Madame George was none other than Georgie Hyde-Lees, wife of Irish poet and mystic W. B. Yeats who acted as Yeats ' muse through automatic writing and inducing trances.

As a child she wrote amazingly precocious work, and corresponded with William Butler Yeats.

Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats ' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self.

* Constantinople appears as a city of wondrous majesty, beauty, remoteness, and nostalgia in William Butler Yeats ' 1928 poem " Sailing to Byzantium ".

* W. B. Yeats references Catullus in his poem The Scholars.

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

* Leda and the Swan, a poem by William Butler Yeats

* " The Second Coming ", a poem by William Butler Yeats

Following the work, Yeats never again attempted another long poem.

Nearly twenty years later, Yeats recalled the night with Gonne in his poem " A Man Young and Old ":

In the northwest, 11 km from Manorhamilton can be found Glencar Waterfall, which was an inspiration to Yeats and is mentioned in his poem The Stolen Child.

* Irish poet William Butler Yeats compared Helen to his lover, Maude Gonne, in his poem " No Second Troy ".

* " The Second Coming " ( poem ) by William Butler Yeats

In the poem " The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus " by William Butler Yeats, " Bland Rhadamanthus " is depicted as beckoning to Plotinus.

) released at the tail end of a year anyone could agree was the embittered honeymoon's end for the Love Generation, the year when, to borrow from a famous Yeats poem, the center decidedly could not hold ... for whatever reason, The Beatles is still one of the few albums by the Fab Four that resists reflexive canonisation, which, along with society's continued fragmentation, keeps the album fresh and surprising.

* William Butler Yeats evoked the Wild Hunt in " The Hosting of the Sidhe ", the opening poem in his collection inspired by Gaelic faery lore, The Celtic Twilight ( 1893, 1903 ).

William Butler Yeats makes reference to it in his poem " Sailing to Byzantium ".

See also Leda and the Swan for the motif in the visual arts and the poem by William Butler Yeats.

Parnell is toasted in the famous 1938 poem of William Butler Yeats, " Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites ", while he is also referred to in " To a Shade ".

Yeats, who hated MacBride for capturing his muse Maud Gonne, and who later heard negative reports of MacBride's treatment of Gonne in their marriage, from Gonne herself, gave him the following ambivalent eulogy in his poem " Easter, 1916 ":

William Butler Yeats responds directly to Arnold's pessimism in his four-line poem, " The Nineteenth Century and After " ( 1929 ):

The title is an allusion to the last line of the poem He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats – " Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

His compositions were themselves part of a learning process ; The Curlew song cycle originated in 1915 with the setting of a Yeats poem, but did not reach completion until 1922.

The Wanderings of Oisin ( ) is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889 in the book The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems.

However, Harold Bloom defended this poem in his book-length study of Yeats, and concludes that it deserves reconsideration.

W. H. Auden's poem " In Memory of Ernst Toller " was published in Another Time ( 1940 ) together with poems memorializing Yeats and Freud, and mourning the spread of fascism and war ( Spain 1937 and September 1, 1939 ).