William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) is reported to have come to loathe “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” Given time and enough repeat performances, artists often learn to despise their greatest hits. Of all ...

William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is about the allure of an imagined refuge. The poem’s distressed urban speaker fantasizes about fleeing the city and retreating to an idyllic Irish ...

In his 1892 poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats fantasizes about a life lived in solitude on an island in Lough Gill in Ireland, where the poet spent his summers as a child. Earlier this year, as a ...

In collaboration with The Model, Hazelwood Demesne Ltd, and Sligo City Council, the Institute of Technology Sligo has launched "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," an international architecture competition ...

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made" I'd had the picture in my mind forever, that is ever since I first read William Butler Yeats' famous poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." It was ...

Korean budget beauty brand Innisfree, which opened its first US store this week, took its name from a poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The popular Korean beauty brand Innisfree opened its first US ...

• For the new year: “Geography III,” by Elizabeth Bishop. “Poems in here are full of questions that could be good for the beginning of a new year,” Buckley says. He says the book poses questions about ...