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​APRIL PROGRAMS

(See News & Programs for details)

• 2025 Yeats Poetry Prize Presentation, Thurs, April 24

• 'Taste of Yeats Summer School,' Sat, April 25​

• Special Reading, Three Yeats Plays, Sun, April 27

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​WB Yeats Society of NY

 

Objectives

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• To act as an educational forum, primarily through lectures and events, for exchanging information about William Butler Yeats, his legacy and literary work, and people, places, events, and ideas that shaped his life and work. ​

• To stimulate awareness of and interest in WB Yeats's life and work.

• To provide information about Yeats events and organizations, particularly the Yeats International Summer School in Ireland and its sponsor, the Sligo-based Yeats Society, and other Yeats societies that, like ours, grew out of the summer school and Sligo society.​​​​

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W. B.Yeats -- Who He Was, What He Wrote, Why He's So Important​

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To learn more about our namesake, there are numerous online sources as well as your local library. Wikipedia and Britannica each feature short, well-documented summaries of his life and legacy. There are also important full-length biographies as well as free access to his complete works.

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R.F. Foster's Seminal:​​ 

​--W.B. Yeats a Life: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914, Foster, R. F.: ISBN 10: 0192117351 / ISBN 13: 9780192117359 Published by Oxford University Press, 1997.

--W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 Foster, R. F. ISBN 10: 0192806092 / ISBN 13: 9780192806093 Published by Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Terrence Brown's:

​--The Life of W.B. Yeats - A Critical Biography Brown, Terence ISBN 10: 0717129136 / ISBN 13: 9780717129133 Published by Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1999.

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​​Yeats's Poems, Plays and Essays:

Virtually all of Yeats's original poems, plays and prose pieces are now free for reading and downloading from Gutenberg.org. Browse for "Yeats." Leave a small donation if you can. The Gutenberg Project is an amazing archive of the world's great literature in the public domain.

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Executive Board

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• Andrew McGowan, President

• ​Alison Armstrong, Ph.D.

• ​Don Bates

• Emily Dunlap

• ​Kate Gill

• Doris Marie Meyer

• Maureen O. Murphy, Ph.D.

• Eddie Vega

 

Emeritus

• John J. Casey, Ph.D.

• Carolyn McGuire, Ph.D.

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