I’m sharing this (again?), because W. B. Yeats is on my mind today.
William Butler Yeats by John Singer Sargent, 1908
[Writers in Art] William Butler Yeats
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Shopping for the Bookworm: J is for Joyce, James
J is for Joyce, James:
James Joyce Ulysses Print by Standard Designs. $24.39
Happy Birthday, George Bernard Shaw!
The inimitable George Bernard Shaw was born on 26 July 1856:
GBS, 1889
Another Caricature of George Bernard Shaw
This caricature of George Bernard Shaw is what the world needs…
Caricature of George Bernard Shaw in the 16 August 1911 issue of Vanity Fair
Those Eyebrows! That Beard! Yes, it is Definitely George Bernard Shaw.
Amazing Caricature of George Bernard Shaw by Edmund Valtman, 1964
Goodbye, Seán O’Casey!
Seán O’Casey died on 18 September 1964. He was 84.
Study of Seán O’Casey by Reginald V. Gray, 1964. (For The New York Times)
Let’s Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Some Dead Irish Writers
Gallery
This gallery contains 19 photos.
Happy Birthday to My Love, George Bernard Shaw!
George Bernard Shaw was born on 26 July 1856:
1909: George Bernard Shaw looking dapper in a fab suit!
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.”-George Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island
James Joyce Died 73 Years Ago Today
Once upon a time, he was just a serious little gentleman.
Kiddie James Joyce, 1888.
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”-James Joyce, Ulysses
George Bernard Shaw Shuffled Off This Mortal Coil 63 Years Ago Today
George Bernard Shaw
“I deal with all periods; but I never study any period but the present, which I have not yet mastered and never shall; and as a dramatist I have no clue to any historical or other personage save that part of him which is also myself…The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”-Preface to The Sanity of Art (1907), George Bernard Shaw
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