William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 at Sandymount, County Dublin, and died on 28 January 1939 at Menton, France. During the seventy-three years between those dates, he became not merely Ireland’s most internationally celebrated modern poet but one of the major writers in English. Poet, dramatist, essayist, editor, cultural organizer, senator, and tireless architect of literary institutions, Yeats made a car…
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
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Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Modernist Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Political Poets, Symbolist Poets
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In the annals of Spanish literature, few figures burn as brightly or cast as haunting a shadow as Federico García Lorca (1898-1936). A poet, playwright, and theatrical director whose life was cut tragically short at the age of 38, Lorca embodied the creative ferment of early 20th-century Spain while giving voice to the deepest currents of human passion, death, and desire. His work, saturated with the rhythms of Andal…
“All that has black sounds has duende.”
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