Irish male poets
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre.
6 episodes
Episodes in this category also belong to the following categories:
CultureReligionEnglish male poetsSonneteersAphoristsNobel laureates in LiteratureEnglish AnglicansEnglish male novelistsEnglish male short story writersModernist theatreVictorian novelistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinAnglican poetsBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryEnglish satiristsIrish male dramatists and playwrightsLiterary theoristsModernismModernist writersVictorian poetsAlumni of the University of EdinburghAnglican writersConversationalistsEnglish short story writersIrish AnglicansIrish expatriates in FranceIrony theoristsTrope theoristsWriters of Gothic fiction18th-century Anglo-Irish people, 18th-century Irish male writers20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersBisexual male writersBisexual novelistsEnglish fantasy writersFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureIrish male novelistsLGBTQ Roman CatholicsLibertarian socialistsMetaphor theoristsNeoclassical writersStreathamitesVictorian writers17th-century Anglo-Irish people18th-century English novelists18th-century Irish writers18th-century pseudonymous writers19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordAnthologistsBisexual poetsEnglish pamphleteersEnglish political writersFormalist poetsHumor researchersIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsScholars of Trinity College DublinSurrealist writersWriters from Dublin (city)18th-century Irish novelists, 18th-century Irish poets20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writers20th-century letter writersAbbey Theatre, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, Butler Yeats family, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, Irish Dominion League, Irish folklorists, Irish occult writers, Irish occultists, Members of the 1922 Seanad, Members of the 1925 Seanad, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, People educated at The High School, Dublin, People from Sandymount, People from West Kensington, Protestant Irish nationalists, Symbolist poets, W. B. Yeats, William Blake scholarsAlumni of Hart Hall, OxfordBisexual journalistsConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismDeaths from ulcersEyepatch wearersFin de siècleFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentIrish essayistsIrish satiristsIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolJonathan SwiftLGBTQ AnglicansPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsPeople educated at Kilkenny College
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland.
26 November 2009
Featuring: Roy Foster, Katherine Mullin, Jeri Johnson
Culture20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsIrish male novelistsHumor researchersIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish male poetsModernismTrope theoristsEyepatch wearersLiterary theoristsMetaphor theoristsDeaths from ulcers20th-century letter writers20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writersModernist writersIrish expatriates in FranceIrish satiristsIrony theoristsSurrealist writersOliver Goldsmith
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village who was a great populariser of science and history in his time.
20 February 2025
Featuring: David O’Shaughnessy, Judith Hawley, Michael Griffin
CultureIrish AnglicansIrish male novelistsIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish male poetsStreathamites18th-century Irish novelists, 18th-century Irish poetsIrish essayistsAlumni of Trinity College Dublin18th-century Anglo-Irish people, 18th-century Irish male writersAlumni of the University of EdinburghOscar Wilde
Melvyn Bragg discusses Oscar Wilde, the Aesthetes and his literary legacy. Was Wilde a reactionary - the last of the romantics - or was he the midwife to modernism?
6 December 2001
Featuring: Valentine Cunningham, Regenia Gagnier, Neil Sammells
ConversationalistsIrish male poetsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismLGBTQ Roman CatholicsWriters of Gothic fictionFin de siècleIrish male dramatists and playwrightsBisexual male writersAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryVictorian novelistsIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolAphoristsVictorian poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandLibertarian socialistsScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Anglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish expatriates in FranceBisexual poetsBisexual novelistsIrish male novelistsLGBTQ AnglicansBisexual journalistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsSwift's A Modest Proposal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal, which reveals much about attitudes to the Irish and the poor in 18th-Century Britain.
29 January 2009
Featuring: John Mullan, Judith Hawley, Ian McBride
CultureIrish male poets18th-century English novelistsEnglish AnglicansPeople educated at Kilkenny CollegeAnglican writersEnglish political writersEnglish male short story writersNeoclassical writersEnglish fantasy writersAlumni of Hart Hall, Oxford18th-century pseudonymous writersEnglish pamphleteersEnglish male novelists18th-century Irish writers18th-century Irish novelists, 18th-century Irish poetsEnglish male poets18th-century Anglo-Irish people, 18th-century Irish male writersAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersJonathan SwiftEnglish short story writersEnglish satirists17th-century Anglo-Irish peopleAlumni of Trinity College DublinIrish satiristsYeats and Irish Politics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics from the suspension of home rule to the division of Ireland.
17 April 2008
Featuring: Roy Foster, Fran Brearton, Warwick Gould
Culture19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsIrish Anglicans20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsSonneteersNobel laureates in LiteratureIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish male poetsVictorian writersFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureFormalist poetsAnthologistsAnglican poetsIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish expatriates in FranceAbbey Theatre, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, Butler Yeats family, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, Irish Dominion League, Irish folklorists, Irish occult writers, Irish occultists, Members of the 1922 Seanad, Members of the 1925 Seanad, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, People educated at The High School, Dublin, People from Sandymount, People from West Kensington, Protestant Irish nationalists, Symbolist poets, W. B. Yeats, William Blake scholarsModernist theatreYeats and Mysticism
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and beliefs of the Irish Poet W B Yeats and explores how a passion for magic and mysticism served and stood alongside his poetry.
31 January 2002
Featuring: Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, Brenda Maddox
Religion19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsIrish Anglicans20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsSonneteersNobel laureates in LiteratureIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish male poetsVictorian writersFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureFormalist poetsAnthologistsAnglican poetsIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish expatriates in FranceAbbey Theatre, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, Butler Yeats family, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, Irish Dominion League, Irish folklorists, Irish occult writers, Irish occultists, Members of the 1922 Seanad, Members of the 1925 Seanad, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, People educated at The High School, Dublin, People from Sandymount, People from West Kensington, Protestant Irish nationalists, Symbolist poets, W. B. Yeats, William Blake scholarsModernist theatre