Yeats

Under Ben Bulben in present-day Sligo. The same scene, seen from the sea.

"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," an early "hit."

An accurate (but ugly) text for "Who Goes with Fergus?"

The final (1925) version of "The Sorrow of Love."

The original Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

"The Fascination of What's Difficult."

18th-century Dublin houses. The Easter Rising proclamation; an Irish memorial to the dead of the Easter Rising, with Yeats' lines from "Easter 1916" inscribed. The Dublin General Post Office after the Easter Rising.

"Easter 1916."

Another reliable text for "Easter 1916," with links to contemporary American poets reading parts of that poem.

Yeats's Tower. Another view. John Rickard's photographs of Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, where Yeats spent part of each year from 1918 to the late 1920s. The restored Coole Park, with deer, in a recent photograph.

A map of troop deployments from the Irish Civil War.

Most links to poems here come from the Yeats page at the Poetry Foundation, likely the only online source for reliable texts to many of these poems; Yeats' later poems are still under copyright, though these are in the public domain in the United States.

Ezra Pound's review of Yeats's Responsibilities (1914).

Some audio files: "It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble to get them into verse"; the Lake Isle. (More audio files on Monday from CD.)

On the first appearance of "Who Goes with Fergus?" (as quoted by M. L. Rosenthal).

Some diagrams and excerpts from Yeats' A Vision. Neil Mann's elaborate explication of A Vision, with more diagrams.