Irish poets
Irish poets to know and love
James Joyce
1882 - 1941
The character based on Joyce himself in his books is surnamed Dedalus, after the mythical master artist and maker of labyrinths: Joyce was both.
From "Pomes, Pennyeach"
Tilly
He travels after a winter sun
Joyce's feelings on the death of his mother
Yeats
1865 - 1939
Man of affairs, mystic and poetic genius.
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Yeats's bleak prophecy after the First World War
The Wild Swans at Coole
The trees are in their autumn beauty
A melancholy but beautiful reflection on change and the passage of time