Influence
Yeats was an important influence on Máirtín Ó Direáin.
The title of the album Like a Flame by Frederik Magle is derived from a quote from Yeats' play The Land of Heart's Desire.
In 2011 The Waterboys released An Appointment with Mr Yeats, an album that contains fourteen tracks, all of which are based upon Yeats' poetry, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott.
Yeats' poem When You Are Old And Grey inspired Australian playwright Jessica Bellamy to write a theatrical monologue Little Love, which was subsequently adapted for the short film Bat Eyes by director Damien Power.
His poem "No Second Troy" is quoted in, and is the inspiration for, the song Yeat's Grave by Irish band The Cranberries.
Read more about this topic: W. B. Yeats
Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign to us: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)