But evidence unearthed for my new book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love, suggests there may be some truth in the idea, promoted by WB Yeats, that Blake was in fact the son of a Dubliner.

Yeats’ name surfaced in a litany of other writers of English and Irish heritage, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Blake and Yeats’ pal T.S. Eliot, in the 15-minute “Summertime ...

William Butler Yeats first appears, in the memories of his contemporaries, as a rarefied human being: ... The father's passion for Blake, Morris, and Rossetti soon was shared by the son.

WILLIAM BLAKE, POET, ... The editors of this great undertaking, Messrs. Yeats and Ellis, approached Blake from a very different angle from that from which Swinburne had approached him.

The influence of the poet William Blake on the work of W.B. Yeats, Van Morrison, and James Joyce was so important as to warrant a substantial study on the matter, Tom Paulin claimed yesterday.

National Poetry Day 2018: Independent writers’ favourite poems from William Blake and Robert Burns to WB Yeats. Our selection of great verse from the 17th century to the age of Instagram ...

Since May 2006, Ireland’s National Library has hosted a popular exhibit on William Butler Yeats. Over the recent week I spent wandering around drizzly Dublin, I found this Nobel laureate hard to ...

William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming, Pandemic, Meaning 100 Years Later NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what a 100 year-old poem by William Butler Yeats means today. Special Series ...