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  1. William Butler Yeats

    William Butler Yeats (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland—died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.. Yeats's father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter.

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    Biography Early years. William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland. His father, John Butler Yeats, was a descendant of Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier, linen merchant, and well-known painter, who died in 1712. Benjamin Yeats, Jervis's grandson and William's great-great-grandfather, had in 1773 married Mary Butler of a landed family in County Kildare.

  3. William Butler Yeats

    William Butler Yeats published his first works in the mid-1880s while a student at Dublin's Metropolitan School of Art. His early accomplishments include The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems ...

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    William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the 17th century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who happened to have been born in Ireland, but Yeats ...

  5. About W. B. Yeats

    Born in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland, on June 13, 1865, William Butler Yeats was the son of the well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo, where his parents were raised, and in London. He returned to Dublin at the age of fifteen to continue his education and to study painting, but quickly discovered that ...

  6. About William Butler Yeats: Bio, Poems, Facts, and More

    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright who played a leading role in the Irish Literary Renaissance. His works often explore themes of mysticism, Irish mythology, and the supernatural. William Butler Yeats is regarded as one of the most important poets of the 20th century. Remarkably, in 1923, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature ...

  7. William Butler Yeats: The Great Irish Poet & Playwright

    A Young Poet . Yeats was always interested in mystical theories and images, the supernatural, the esoteric and the occult. As a young man, he studied the works of William Blake and Emanuel Swedenborg and was a member of the Theosophical Society and Golden Dawn.But his early poetry was modeled on Shelley and Spenser (e.g., his first published poem, "The Isle of Statues," in The Dublin ...

  8. Our Greatest Poet-Statesman: Authorized Biography of William Butler Yeats

    W. B. YEATS, 1865—1939. ByJoseph Hone.The Macmillan Company.$6.00. MR. HONE'S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider ...

  9. William Butler Yeats 101 by The Editors

    William Butler Yeats 101. The different sides of Ireland's most famous poet. Illustration by Sophie Herxheimer. It is possible that no other 20th-century poet has had as much of a singular and lasting impact on his nation and national literature than William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Yeats's wide range of styles and subjects reflected the ...

  10. William Butler Yeats Biography

    William Butler Yeats Biography. Born: June 13, 1865 Dublin, Ireland Died: January 28, 1939 Roquebrune, France Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist (playwright). Some think he was the greatest poet of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.

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    Hammer, Langdon. ENGL 310: Modern Poetry, William Butler Yeats. In the first of two lectures on Yeats, "The early poetry of William Butler Yeats is read and interpreted with particular attention paid to Yeats's ambitions as a specifically Irish poet. Yeats's commitment to a poetry of symbol is explored in 'The Song of the Wandering Aengus,' a ...

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    William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure.He is considered among the most influential figures in early twentieth-century English verse and regarded by some critics as among the greatest poets in the English language.. Yeats came to maturity at the beginning of the twentieth century and his poetry marks a transition from ...

  13. Yeats, William Butler

    Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939), poet and dramatist, was born 13 June 1865 at Georgeville, Sandymount Avenue, Dublin, the eldest child of John Butler Yeats (qv) (1839-1922) and Susan Mary Yeats (née Pollexfen; 1841-1900). The couple had six children: besides William there were two other sons, one of whom died in infancy, and three daughters, one of whom also died in infancy.

  14. Biography: William Butler Yeats

    Biography: William Butler Yeats. William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, in Dublin, Ireland. His father, John, was a lawyer, but an artist at heart, and he left his law practice to become a portrait painter. His mother was Susan Pollexfen, whose family had prosperous business interests in milling and shipbuilding in Sligo, on Ireland ...

  15. The Life of W. B. Yeats

    The young W. B. Yeats frequently made the journey to Liverpool on his grandfather's craft, though perhaps because he first set foot in the country as a very young child, we have no description of a sea voyage to the neighbouring island as Irish rite of passage, to set beside those of various other Irish writers.

  16. William Butler Yeats' Writing Style and Short Biography

    A Short Biography of William Butler Yeats. William Butler Yeats was born on 13th June 1865 in Dublin, Ireland, to John Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen. He was the eldest son of the family. His father was a lawyer, and when Yeats was born, he left his profession. Yeats' early years of life were spent in London and also made frequent visits to ...

  17. William Butler Yeats

    Biography. by Anthony Domestico. W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is the figure most associated with the Irish Literary Revival of the early 20th century; his poetry, prose, and drama helped earn him the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a complex amalgam of influences and interests, deeply engaged with the political issues of Home Rule yet equally fascinated by esoteric spiritualism, using some of ...

  18. W.B. Yeats, A Life: The Arch-Poet, 1915

    The first volume in Roy Foster's magisterial biography of W.B. Yeats was hailed as "a work of huge significance" (The Atlantic Monthly) and "a stupendous historiographical feat" (Irish Sunday Independent).Now, the eagerly awaited second volume explores the complex poetic, political, and personal intricacies of Yeats's dramatic final decades, a period that saw the Easter Rebellion, the founding ...

  19. W. B. Yeats bibliography

    W. B. Yeats bibliography. This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865-1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised. Posthumous editions are also included if they ...

  20. W. B. Yeats documentary

    William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was...

  21. William Butler Yeats

    William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in the seaside village of Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland. His mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen (1841-1900) was the daughter of a wealthy family from County Sligo. Susan's father's political loyalties, that Ireland should remain under the British crown, were in direct opposition to her husband ...