Yeats Now: Echoing Into Life
A guide to letting great poetry enliven your life.
poems for today
Seeking the perfect line of poetry to enhance an important speech or personal note, or simply to express your thoughts? It might come as a surprise that the poetry of famed Irish poet W.B.Yeats is as relevant and meaningful now as ever. In Yeats Now, noted author Joseph Hassett brings to life Yeats’s most memorable lines, arranged by themes like Love, Friendship, and Special Occasions. This stylish, gift-ready edition provides illuminating and easy entry into the work of one of the world’s great poets. Cultural icons like Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, and Seamus Heaney have cited Yeats’s poetry as life-changing. It could change yours.
“...one of the most beautiful and enjoyable books on Yeats...a delight to read....Lucky Yeats in having an interpreter as relaxed, authoritative and tender as Joseph Hassett.”
— Declan Kiberd, Dublin Review of Books
“...a subtle and often illuminating study of what we can learn from Yeats...and how we can let his words echo in our own lives...a delight to read...Hassett is an uncommonly acute and insightful reader of poetry....”
— Michael O'Loughlin, Irish Times.
About the author
Joseph M. Hassett has written extensively on Yeats, Joyce, and other Irish writers. He holds a Ph.D. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College Dublin and is a graduate of Harvard Law School. His books include W.B. Yeats and the Muses and The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet the Law. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from University College Dublin in 2019. Joe lives in Washington, D.C., where he has practiced law since 1970, with his wife Carol Melton. Son Matthew lives in New York and daughter Meredith lives in Los Angeles.
Joe sees himself as a link in a chain in the legacy of Yeats. Read more about this fascinating story.
Joe with his daughter Meredith and UCD President Andrew Meeks
Joe at Thoor Ballylee, known as “Yeats’s Tower,” in Ireland
Let’s talk Yeats.
jmhassett@gmail.com