What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) composed poetry about history and Ireland and the occult, about swans and gyres and ancient Byzantium, but fundamentally he almost always wrote about love.

I met my future husband at 19, and I wrote this poem in a notebook for him. By then it had already been echoing around inside me for years, telling me the truth about love. (Love is monomaniacal ...

In another of my favorite love poems, William Butler Yeats uses the word “game,” but in order to reach beyond it: The dragon, the “settled game,” the chained ankles, the almost casual ...

back to the poems themselves, with a sense that Yeats was, as Auden put it, “silly like us”, but a supreme love poet for all that.

Two principal sources genuinely inspired the poems of Yeats - love for his motherland and intense attraction for women, particularly for beautiful ones. Women were like Muses to him. His ...

with a passion for Irish nationalism and a love for romantic poetry, “a fin de siècle beauty in Valkyrie mode”, wrote Yeats’s biographer, Roy Foster, “and both her appearance and ...

Readers who know about Yeats’ unrequited love for a young Dublin actress find in the poem a wistful sadness for a love that didn’t work out. Remember, he says to her, when you are old and gray ...

I had a short poem by William Butler Yeats pretty accurately by heart ... Those that I guard I do not love. In addition to that political context, the word meddling gives an audacious or severe ...

1653 and 2954, where the poem is on p. 42 under the title ‘The ... This view may be compared to Yeats’s view that he ‘could not give [Olivia Shakespear] the love that was her beauty’s right… she was ...