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  Yeats W B: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Yeats ultimately became a respected public figure, a member (1922–28) of the Irish senate, and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Yeats by A. Norman Jeffares and A. Knowland...
Yeats was a leader in founding (1902) the Irish National Theatre Society with Lady Gregory, J. Synge, and A. (George Russell) contributing...
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  Yeats, William Butler
Yeats was already a proud young man, and his pride required him to rely on his own taste and his sense of artistic style.
Yeats published several volumes of poetry during this period, notably Poems (1895) and The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), which are typical of his early verse in their dreamlike atmosphere and their use of Irish folklore and legend.
Yeats explained his own philosophy in the prose work A Vision (1925, revised version 1937); this meditation upon the relation between imagination, history, and the occult remains indispensable to serious students of Yeats despite its obscurities.
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/648_91.html   (2153 words)

  
 Review: 'Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: new light on three
The sections on Yeats and Joyce supplement photography with new reminiscences.
Printed here are interviews with Anne Yeats and Carola GiedionWelcker as well as a glimpse of Yeats by the late Austin Clarke.
There are also well-informed commentaries, alas already dated, on the spiralling status of the Yeats and Joyce industries.
www.english.fsu.edu /jobs/num06/Num6Brater.htm   (596 words)

  
 Anne, queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Thus it was at least partly through the pressure of the Marlboroughs that Anne was induced, despite her Tory sympathies, to oust Tory ministers in favor of Whigs.
Queen Anne was a dull, stubborn, but conscientious woman, devoted to the Church of England and within it to the High Church party.
During Anne’s reign such thinkers as George Berkeley and Sir Isaac Newton and such scholars and writers as Richard Bentley, Swift, Pope, Addison, Steele, and Defoe were at work, while Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh were at the same time setting in stone and brick the rich elegance of the period.
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(Anne Yeats owns two signed embroideries by her aunt: Three Musicians and Innisfree.) They date from the period of her retirement from the Cuala workshops due to ill-health in the early 1930s to her last accomplished embroidery, Apple Trees (Fig.
The Yeats and Gibbon families were related by marriage and Lily always identified herself as ‘your cousin Lily Yeats’ on her gifts of books.6 As schoolboys John and David were taken to visit Lily at Gurteen Dhas near the Bottle Tower about three times a year, once a term from their view.
In the churchyard is the grave of Lily and Elizabeth Yeats.
www.irishartsreview.com /html/features/yeats/feature_yeats.htm   (1353 words)

  
 Yeats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeats is the surname of a notable Irish family:
Elizabeth Yeats (1868-1940), active in the Arts and Crafts movement and editor of the Dun Emer Press
Anne Yeats (1919-2001), Irish painter and stage designer
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yeats   (150 words)

  
 A VISION OF YEATS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Yeats was by now an eminent and elegant person, but Olympian only when he saw a need, not ordinarily humorless or hard to approach.
Yeats married Georgiana Hyde-Lees in October 1917 with Pound as best man. "George" was close friends with Dorothy Shakespear, Pound’s wife and daughter of Olivia Shakespear, a good friend of Yeats’s, which further cemented their close relationship.
On the night in August 1896 that Yeats had his archer vision, Symons had a dream of "a woman of great beauty, but she was clothed and had not a bow and arrow." When he woke up, Symons wrote a poem about the woman, the only poem he ever wrote about a dream.
www.uwm.edu /Library/special/exhibits/yeats/part1.htm   (4600 words)

  
 Anne Yeats: Encyclopedia - Anne Yeats
Anne Yeats (9 May 1919 - 4 July 2001) was an Irish painter and stage designer.
She was a daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats and a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Anne Yeats trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy school from 1933-36 and worked as a stage designer with the Abbey before taking up painting full time in 1941; she had a touching naive expressionist style and was interested in representing domestic humanity.
www.experiencefestival.com /a/Anne_Yeats/id/1913605   (334 words)

  
 Personalities
Yeats fell in love with her and was to be tormented for years by her staunch independence and rebellious nature.
DeLury, to whom the letters were addressed, was a collector of Irish literature and Elizabeth Yeats and her Cuala Press were printing some of the most beautifully designed first editions of Irish Literature at the time.
W.B. Yeats, was a very private woman, who did not like the attention she received as wife of the poet.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/zyperson.htm   (3189 words)

  
 John Butler Yeats Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Yeats went on to become a talented and well-known, albeit moderately successful, portrait painter, primarily of Irish writers and prominent people in the theater.
The photographs show the sitting room in Yeats's house in Dundrum, Ireland, and Anne Yeats (daughter of W. [William Butler] Yeats) as a young child with her nurse; and there are photographic reproductions of Yeats's portraits of Mary Tower Lapsley Caughey, Mary-Lapsley Caughey Guest, and Padraic Colum, as well as of some drawings.
The correspondence by Yeats to his American friends during his residence in New York from 1908 to his death in 1922 is arranged alphabetically.
infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/yeatsjb   (1480 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: William Butler Yeats: Selected Poems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Alldritt reveals that Yeats was not just "the sensitive introvert who began as the mooning dreamer and after a lifetime seeking philosophical and hermetic wisdom, ended as the learned sage" that Yeats himself and his biographers would have us believe.
Yeats lived at a time of profound changes for the Western world from the high Victorianism of the late 1800s to the advent of modernism in the 1930s.
I have attempted to offer a strong sense of Yeats in his social and historical context--to show that an important side of his genius was his deep and often manipulative relationship with the turbulent life around him as with his turbulent life within.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/051707396X   (1032 words)

  
 Sligo Weekender: Yeats’ son gives book collection to Sligo IT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Anne Yeats Collection was formally presented to IT Sligo at a ceremony in the college library yesterday (Monday) attended by members of the Yeats family, lecturers and students of the Yeats Summer School, and members of the staff and Governing Body of IT Sligo.
The 500 volumes in the Anne Yeats collection span virtually the whole of the 20th century.
Anne Yeats, who was born in Dublin in 1919, was a painter and designer, building on the artistic background of her uncle Jack B. Yeats and grandfather John B. Yeats.
www.sligoweekender.ie /news/story.asp?j=112   (339 words)

  
 PHONE-SOFT INTERNET DIRECTORY INTERNATIONAL:YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER
Yeats Museum - Announcement about The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD, officiating at the opening in March of the Yeats Museum with Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Síle de Valera, and Anne Yeats, artist and daughter of William Butler Yeats.
The museum is a permanent tribute to the artistic achievements of the Yeats family, in particular John Butler Yeats and Jack B. Yeats.
Yeats Society Sligo - Site devoted to the perpetuation of the artistic heritage of the Yeats family and to the celebration of the life and achievements of William Butler Yeats and his poetry.
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 William Butler Yeats - World's Greatest Classic Books
William Butler Yeats was an Irish dramatist and poet, encouraged into the arts by both his parents.
As a child, Yeats' father read to him a variety of works, including Shakespeare, the Romantic poets, and Irish folk tales.
Yeats went to school in both London and Dublin, concentrating on painting.
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 Famous Poets & Their Best Poems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Anne Kingsmill was born in April, 1661, the third child of Sir William Kingsmill and Anne Haslewood.
Anne Haslewood remarried in 1662, to Sir Thomas Ogle, and bore Anne's half-sister Dorothy Ogle.
In 1714, Queen Anne died and was succeeded by George I. A Whig government, hostile to the Jacobite cause, was reinstated.
www.angelfire.com /poetry/yourpage/2finch.html   (4377 words)

  
 Eire-Ireland:Journal of Irish Studies: To be loved as a cupboard: the Yeats Museum in the National Gallery of Ireland - ...
Jack Yeats was by nature a beachcomber; these last illuminate his subject matter and explain his methods of working.
When his niece Anne inherited his archive, she was faced with the task of sorting the enormous quantity of memorabilia, not all by any means stored so neatly as might appear from the above, and she adopted a comparable system for what was not already boxed.
Besides some of Cottie's books (his wife Mary Cottenham Yeats, known as Cottie, admired W. Yeats's writings and collected his early first editions), there are a few volumes originally in the possession of Lily Yeats, whose effects Jack (as the sole surviving member of the family) had to disperse when she died.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FKX/is_2001_Fall-Winter/ai_83447256/pg_2   (1550 words)

  
 Meningar.com om Yeats. Butler, William, Society mm.
Yeats Society of New York - Calendar of Yeats Society events and activities in NYC, and links to Yeats resources on the net Yeats Society Sligo - Site devoted to the perpetuation of the artistic heritage of the Yeats family and to the celebration of the..
YEATS ON THE WEBYeats Society of SligoYeats Society of New York Australian Yeats SocietyMy Yeats CyberspaceIf you are an author or student and would like to add to this bibliography, you may E-Mail me atmccready@umbc...
Glossary entry for Yeats, William Butler William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939) celebrated Irish poet and nationalist, was born in Dublin, and educated in London and Dublin...
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 The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. II: The Plays: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
The Collected Works of W. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper.
Though best known as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, from the beginning of his career William Butler Yeats understood the value of his plays and his poetry to be the same.
Somewhere among my printed diaries is a note describing how on the same night my two sisters and their servant dreamt the same dream in three different grotesque forms.
www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=0684857235   (1275 words)

  
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This then would be the focus of this seminar, how Yeats turns apparent marginality into centrality, and how the particular becomes of general interest in early, middle, and late work of Yeats focusing on "The Two Irelands": Irish Ireland and Anglo-Ireland.
Yeats develops his poetry of place by eschewing the appeal to the picturesque of the tourist's guide to the Tower and its environs (as we will).
In this poem Yeats generalizes the Tower beyond the specifics of Thoor Ballylee, but the power of this image is directly dependant on the construction of the Tower in the earlier poems.
home.rochester.rr.com /neh2003/seminarplan.html   (1668 words)

  
 POST Newspapers Online: Headline News
District Court Judge Mary Anne Yeats found Cottesloe council had breached its duty of care by not having signs on the groyne warning of the dangers of diving from it.
Judge Yeats said: "There should be a graphic depiction of a person hitting his head on the seabed and a depiction of the consequences, either a wheelchair emblem or words such as 'you could be paralysed'."
Judge Yeats said hundreds of people had dived from the groyne for 33 years up to the day of the incident without any reports of spinal injury.
www.postnewspapers.com.au /20020420/news/008.shtml   (620 words)

  
 Free Essays on To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph In The Poem To A Friend Whose Work Ha
It was a poem believed to be written to reassure a friend that what she ended up doing was a noble thing even though in reality she failed her original task.
Sexton's friend must have been a fellow poet to be able to catch the allusion to Yeats' poem.
Anne Sexton obviously chose allusion as her method of conveying her emotional message to her friend.
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 Selected Publishers: Cuala
Elizabeth and Emily Yeats, with Evelyn Gleeson, formed Dun Emer in 1903 to revive the industries of weaving, emproidery and printing.
W.B. Yeats became an editor of the press, and many of his works were published and printed here, and Jack Yeats was responsible for many illustrations.
In 1969, the press was taken up by Michael and Anne Yeats, with Liam Miller, continuing the aims of its founders (4).
www.library.ubc.ca /spcoll/Colbeck/publishers/cuala.htm   (269 words)

  
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Yeats Jack B I George W Russell I Acta et Decreta I Irish Plays I Barry Tom I Becket Samuel I Bonner Brian I Cannon John I Carney James I
Yeats W.B. I Cusack M.F I Davies Sir John I Day Lewis C I Dillon Eilís I Dunsany Lord I Falkland I Fitzpatrick William John I Gore-Booth Eva I Gregory Lady I
Yeats, Jack B. Exhibition of the Works of Jack B. Yeats and his family held at the Sligo County Library and Museum, Sligo from 29th October to 29th December 1971.
homepage.eircom.net /~normanhealy/300_to_399.htm   (1637 words)

  
 Yeats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, in Dublin, Ireland, the oldest of four children.
It is said that his work forms a bridge between the romantic, often decadent poetry of the fin de siècle and the hard clear language found in much modern poetry.
In 1917 he married Miss George Hyde-Less and they two children, a daughter, Anne Butler Yeats and a son, William Michael.
www.redflame93.com /Yeats.html   (160 words)

  
 Anne, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
She is patroness of Quebec prov., and Ste Anne de Beaupré is one of the most visited of New World shrines.
Brittany, also under her patronage, has the renowned shrine of Ste Anne d’Auray, with its annual pilgrimage.
In art, she is usually an elderly veiled woman and often appears teaching her daughter to read.
www.bartleby.com /65/an/Anne-St.html   (144 words)

  
 William Butler Yeats
Ellmann, Richard, The Identity of Yeats, 2d ed.
Finneran, R. J., ed., Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, 6 vols.
Jeffares, A. Norman, A New Commentary on the Poems of W. Yeats (1984)
www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp /~hishika/yeats.htm   (197 words)

  
 AUDIO ARTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Anne Wyndham Lewis: Interview by William Furlong, February 1974.
W B. Yeats reads The Song of the Old Mother, from the Wind Among The Reeds (1899), with comment on a Fairy Song, recorded 1934.
Yeats: reads Coole Park and Ballylee (verses 2 & 3) from The 7 Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) Recorded 1937 and The Lake Isle of Innisfree from The Rose (1893) Recorded 1937.
www.kunstradio.at /BREGENZ/AA/audioarts.html   (220 words)

  
 Yeats Society Sligo - International Summer School
In the course of the action, Yeats dramatises the final moments of Christ on the cross: as the Chorus observes, he 'dreams hispassion through.’ Yet the play is not merely a re-enactment of the Biblical story but a philosophical exploration of the nature of godhead and sacrifice.
Yeats was raised in Sligo and was deeply influenced by the landscape and the characters he encountered here in his formative years.
So great was the impact of Sligo on the painter that he once declared that he had nevercreated a painting without it having in it "A thought of Sligo" This show will feature works from every phase of his career from early pen and ink illustrations to later period expressionist oils.
www.yeats-sligo.com /html/sligofestival.html   (3462 words)

  
 "Three Women, Three Symbols, a Commentary on W. B. Yeats's 'Friends'"
Yeats labors because desiring love is a troublesome thing, and yet he is in ecstasy
As an adult, Yeats finds his life-long goal of loving his native land.
outweighs the bad, Yeats is compelled to wake on her account every morning.
www.msu.edu /~lewisann/comm1.html   (656 words)

  
 Meath County Council Art Collection 1955-2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Anne Yeats was the daughter of W.B.Yeats, and he encouraged her early wish to become an artist.
She attended classes with Nevill Johnson, and went to drawing lessons at the RHA School, where she was taught by Dermod O'Brien and Maurice MacGonigal.
Her uncle, Jack B. Yeats supported her by purchasing some of her early works.
www.meath.ie /art_collection/biog_y.htm   (89 words)

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