Yeats

From the National Library of Ireland, an online exhibit for Yeats' manuscripts, with portraits and other materials as well (some navigation required).

Under Ben Bulben in present-day Sligo.

"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."

Reading more of Yeats's rough drafts.

The original Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

"The Fascination of What's Difficult."

18th-century Dublin houses. The Easter Rising proclamation; 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.

Part of an important letter Yeats wrote about "Easter 1916."

Yeats's Tower. Another view.

Lissadell. At Lissadell, more images of W. B. Yeats, young and old.

John Rickard's photographs of Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, where Yeats spent part of each year from 1918 to the late 1920s.

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.

From the Academy of American Poets, a reliable text for Sailing to Byzantium."

From the Academy, "A Prayer for My Daughter."

Byzantine art in Ravenna: mosaic of Justinian; a detail with a head.

The Stone Cottage where Yeats lived with Pound as his assistant for parts of 1913-16.

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.