"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" may be one of the most memorized poems in the Irish canon, yet beneath its dreamy Irish landscape lies a striking connection to America. From Thoreau and Emerson to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A poem that imagines a peace and goodness that can’t possibly exist in a fallen world. Yet while you might want to arise and go, and go to Innisfree, you can’t get there from here.

It's interesting that the great poet of Ireland, a country long associated with strife and troubles, should have written a poem containing one of the best-known uses in poetry of the word "peace." ...