Recently, Fu Hao, research professor at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, published two notes on Chinese elements in Yeats’s poems in Notes and Queries, Volume 69, Issue 1, March 2022 published by Oxford University Press. They are respectively entitled “Who Is the Lord of Chou?” Read more…
Fu Hao’s new book contains a selection of 89 poems by W. B. Yeats in the original, each accompanied by a Chinese version, and a detailed commentary in Chinese, with intention to provide Chinese readers with an understanding of Yeats’s poems and some knowledge of their backgrounds. Adopting the method Read more…
Sirshendu Majumdar’s new book has recently been published by Routledge! This book presents a set of original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry Cousins. Through these letters, the volume explores their shared Read more…
Yeats and English 10-12 December 2021 For England may keep faithFor all that is done and said W.B. Yeats, “Easter, 1916” I remind myself that … I owe my soul to Shakespeare, to Spenser, and to Blake…and to the English language in which I think, speak and write, that everything Read more…
Due to the disruption caused by the pandemic, the Sligo Yeats Society is in danger of imminent closure, and this has put the future of the International Yeats Summer School, which the Society supports, in jeopardy. For more information, please see this recent article from The Irish Times. For a Read more…
We are proud to announce the publication of volume 5.1 (2021) of International Yeats Studies. Guest edited by Margaret Mills Harper and Alexandra Poulain, the edition focuses on Wheels and Butterflies. In addition to individual contributions from the co-editors, it includes articles by Charles I. Armstrong, Inés Bigot, and Akiko Read more…
Ragini Mohite’s new book addresses W.B. Yeats’s and Rabindranath Tagore’s engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions of Ireland and India. It offers a fresh critical perspective on their work from the beginning of the twentieth century, the point at which their international collaborations most significantly influence Read more…
The International Yeats Society is deeply saddened to learn of the death of George Bornstein—distinguished Yeats scholar, leader in modernist studies, Guggenheim Fellow, Professor at the University of Michigan, and fixture at the Yeats International Summer School. George is beloved by all of us in the Yeats community. His full Read more…
December 11th-12th, 2020 Full information about the conference can be found here: Yeats and Popular Culture – 11-12 December 2020 – International Yeats Society and University of Łódź, Poland (lodz.pl In view of the unasked for popularity that Yeats has won over the years, the conference aims to focus on Read more…
The International Yeats Society is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sister Margaret MacCurtain—distinguished historian, feminist, educator, human rights activist, and great friend to many of us in the Yeats community. Her obituary in the Irish Times can be found here: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/pioneering-historian-margaret-maccurtain-has-died-aged-91-1.4373446. The funeral Mass will be streamed live Thursday, October Read more…