麻豆约拍

To mark 100 years since poet, dramatist and prose writer WB Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's poetry archive and selects two programmes from the series The Essay.

William Butler Yeats is a commanding presence in 20th-century literature and has inspired, and occasionally infuriated, successive generations of readers, writers, and performers ever since.

The Essay: Yeats by Heart
Celebrated actress and director Fiona Shaw explains the lasting impact of her childhood introduction to the work of WB Yeats.

Producer: Stan Ferguson.

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 in 2015.

The Essay: Not Liking Yeats
Writer and cultural commentator Fintan O'Toole explains why it is not always necessary to like everything about the man himself to appreciate the wonder of the poetry of WB Yeats.

Producer: Stan Ferguson.

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 in 2015.