Lapis lazuli is a vividly blue rock, sometimes with streaks of gold, that has been known for millennia for its eye-popping colour and use as a semi-precious gemstone. It gets its colour from the ...

ABSTRACT: W. B. Yeats's understanding of Chinese arts and poetics is best presented in his poem “Lapis Lazuli,” in which he parallels European arts and Chinese arts, displaying a West–East contrast in ...