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Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865, the eldest of four children.
Yeats' mother Susan Pollexfen Yeats, the daughter of a successful merchant from Sligo in western Ireland, was descended from a line of intense, eccentric people interested in faeries and astrology.
Yeats is saying that when he looks into the blue sky, towards heaven above, he is reminded of all those people who have spent their lives "playing the game".
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 William Butler Yeats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born in Dublin in 1865 the firstborn of John Yeats and Susan Mary Yeats.
Yeats an obsessive infatuation with Gonne and she to have a significant effect on his and his life ever after.
Yeats after suffering from a variety of for a number of years died in in January 1939 eight months before the German invasion of Poland.
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 HUM 1324: Herb's W.B.Yeats Page
William Butler Yeats is considered by many poets, critics, and scholars to be the greatest English language poet in the 20th century and most certainly Ireland's greatest poetic treasure.
Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 13, 1865, to John Butler Yeats and Susan Pollexfen, parents of Anglo-Irish descent.
Yeats spent several of his childhood summers near Sligo, an area lush in the beautiful green of its mountains and gorgeous blues of its lakes and sea.
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 washingtonpost.com: W. B. Yeats: A Life/The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914
Susan Pollexfen Yeats was notably pretty; her eldest son was told later that she had been "the most beautiful woman in Sligo", and her husband's early sketches show a pensive face, large-eyed and delicate.
Susan Yeats, her background dominated by a powerful and taciturn father, entered marriage to be dominated by an equally self-willed, though talkative husband.
Susan Yeats, who thought she heard the banshee cry before her child died, was probably precipitated by the loss into the depression from which she never really returned.
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 William Butler Yeats Collection
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of four children born to Susan Pollexfen and John Butler Yeats.
Yeats agreed and in 1903-4 he traveled to America appearing at most of the major American colleges and universities, clubs, and societies.
Letters to Yeats are grouped together in a single folder and a lively correspondence between Yeats and Thomas Sturge Moore carried out between 1901 and 1936, is present at the end of the series.
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 Wikinfo | William Butler Yeats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born in Dublin, in 1865, the firstborn of John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Yeats.
Yeats' early poetry drew heavily on Irish myth and legend, however his later work was engaged with more contemporary issues.
Yeats' middle period, after he came under the influence of Ezra Pound, saw him abandon the pre-Raphaelite character of his early work and attempt to turn himself into a Landor-style social ironist.
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Yeats was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival and was co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.
Susan Yeats (1866 1949), known as Lily, was born in County Sligo, Ireland.
She was the daughter of the Irish artist John Butler Yeats and sister of W. B., Jack and Susan Yeats.
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 Personalities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yeats fell in love with her and was to be tormented for years by her staunch independence and rebellious nature.
She was the editor of women's labour news and her sister, Constance Markievicz, was among those arrested and sentenced to death during the Easter Rising (although her sentence was later lifted).
Susan Mary Yeats (Lily) (1866 - 1949) Lily was the oldest daughter in the Yeats family.
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 Yeats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Susan Yeats, also known as Lily, (1866-1949), active in the Arts and Crafts movement and Dun Emer Guild.
Elizabeth Yeats (1868-1940), active in the Arts and Crafts movement and editor of the Dun Emer Press.
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 William Butler Yeats Biography
Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with Gonne, and she was to have a significant effect on his poetry and his life ever after.
Yeats spent the summer of 1917 with Maud Gonne, and proposed to Gonne's daughter, but was rejected.
This refers to Yeats' belief that history was cyclic, and that his age represented the end of the cycle that began with the rise of Christianity.
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 ipedia.com: William Butler Yeats Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yeats, after suffering from a variety of illnesses for a number of years, died in France in January, 1939, eight months before the German invasion of Poland.
Yeats was first buried at Roquebrune, until his body was moved to Drumecliff, Sligo in September, 1948.
Yeats' later work found new imaginative inspiration in the mystical system he began to work out for himself under the influence of spiritualism.
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 William Butler Yeats - Books and Biography
Yeats did not have in the beginning much confidence in Lady Gregory's literary skills, but after seeing her translation of the ancient Irish Cuchulain sagas he changed his mind.
In 1932 Yeats founded the Irish Academy of Letters and in 1933 he was briefly involved with the fascist Blueshirts in Dublin.
Yeats died in 1939 at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France.
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 Mi Lee
The least recognized of all of John Butler Yeats’s children, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats spent much of her life, to varying degrees, in the shadows of her world-renown poet brother William B. Yeats, of her other brother, the successful painter Jack Yeats, and of her sister Susan Yeats, the "favorite" daughter of the family.
William Butler Yeats was the literary editor of a press created and maintained by his sister, who would spend most of her time thinking about her works as well as "getting her thoughts" through it.
Miss Yeats had a harder task than the many Englishmen who set up presses; because she was working in a country which had no commercial standard of fine printing.
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 William Butler Yeats - Biography and Works
William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in the seaside village of Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland.
Susan’s father’s political loyalties, that Ireland should remain under the British crown, were in direct opposition to her husband’s John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) who was sympathetic to the Nationalists and Home Rulers.
The Yeats were now living in London in Bedford Park where Yeats’ aesthetic sensibility was oftentimes offended by the ubiquitous red brick, however their home was the lively gathering place for their many writer and artist friends to discuss politics, religion, literature, and art.
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 Amazon.com: Yeats's Ghosts: Books: Brenda Maddox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yeats had a capacity for staying 'forever young' that led to some odd connections; he involved himself, especially after the Steinach operation, with a cast of dubious individuals who took him away from the unwanted responsibilities of home and family.
Yeats was probably not as conducive to marriage as he wanted to be, and, according to Maddox, his new wife quickly sensed it.
Yeats and Yeats' domestic life, but is essentially a mediocre and sloppy piece of work, full of hasty, half-baked judgment, and occassional smarmy irreverence.
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 John Butler Yeats Collection
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.
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 Famous Irish - William Butler Yeats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
William Butler Yeats was a leader in the Irish literary renaissance who is best known for his poetry and dramaticism.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, much of Yeats' work is marked by his use of Irish legend and culture: many claim that he was the outstanding English language poet of the 20th Century.
His mother, Susan Pollexfan Yeats, was the daughter of a Sligo merchant and she was fascinated with faeries and astrology.
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Yeats believed that his wife was capable of acting as a spirit medium, and based much of his mystical work, A Vision (1925), on her automatic script.
Yeats died in the South of France in 1939, and was buried in 1940 in Sligo.
Connecting literature and self, Kiberd argues that for both Whitman and Yeats "the decolonization of the body was a task almost as important as the decolonization of the native culture" (127).
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 'Yeats’s Ghosts' by Brenda Maddox
Focusing on Yeats’ marital relationship, the new book traces the husband and wife’s unlikely struggles to use the occult to make sense of their marriage, their children and the interstices of the physical and spiritual universe all at the same time.
A cold and distant woman who may have been manic-depressive, Susan Yeats came to life only when recounting the magical tales she had learned as a child in rural Ireland.
Yeats’ later years, vividly depicted by Maddox, reveal a series of flirtations with younger women and flamboyant causes.
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 The Company He Kept - Linda Simon
William Butler Yeats has had no lack of eminent biographers, including Richard Ellmann, Joseph Hone, and A. Norman Jeffares, but R.F. Foster comes to Yeats with a considerably new perspective: that of historian rather than literary critic.
Yeats (Foster refers to him as WBY throughout the book) was born in Dublin in 1865, the first child of Susan Pollexfen Yeats and the painter John Butler Yeats, as bohemian a father as one could find in nineteenth-century Ireland.
Because the elder Yeats wanted to study painting and partake of the thriving British art world, WBY spent much of his childhood in London.
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 [minstrels] An Irish Airman Foresees His Death -- William Butler Yeats
He explains, "Yeats implies that Gregory knew his work to be finished in one brief flaring of creative intensity and that he therefore chose death rather than wasting into unprofitable old age." Lucas goes on to mention that the poem is essentially concerned with the balance between life and death.
Shaw (in the chance encounter of a foot soldier with a lady) impresses how experience teaches a soldier that the preservation of ones life is more important thann anything else and how romantic notions attached to war was a purely civilian idea.
Yeats on the other hand brings in that same denounced romantic notions into the airman's death in the poem though in a somewhat uncivilian manner.
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 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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 W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": An Overview
In fact his career spans both the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries and one of the remarkable things about him as a writer is the breadth and variety of his work, as well as his continued development as a poet during his life.
Few poets continue to produce work which maintains their highest level of achievement through into old age, but Yeats is one of these, and many would argue that the work of his later years represents a more significant achievement than that of his earlier years, though this is not to compare like with like.
Yeats started work on the first exposition of the system within a month of the start of the Automatic Writing in 1917 and continued working on it until 1931.
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 W.B. Yeats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
William Butler Yeats is one of the many famous names to come from the original Golden Dawn.
His poetry and writings were a display of his passion for mysticism and the Occult Sciences.
In 1885, Yeats' first poems were published, in the Dublin University Review.
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 fiddlerSligo
Poet William Butler Yeats was actually born at Georgeville, Sandymouth Avenue, Dublin, the first child of John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen Yeats.
In 1870, Robert Corbet Yeats (Bobbie) was born, and in 1871 John Butler Yeats (Jack) was born.
William Butler Yeats is buried at the foot of Benbulben which rises majestically out of the north Sligo plain to a height of 1,725 feet.
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 Susan Yeats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susan Mary Yeats (1866 1949), known as Lily, was born in County Sligo, Ireland.
She was the daughter of John Butler Yeats and the sister of W.
The Yeats Sisters : A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats.
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 Leda and the Swan Summary
William Butler Yeats, probably the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and certainly one of its most complex men, was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount on 13 June 1865.
William Butler Yeats was born into an Irish-Protestant family on 13 June 1865, in Dublin, the oldest of the four children of the artist John Butler Yeats and Susan Pollexfen Yeats.
William Butler Yeats is widely acknowledged as the greatest poet of the twentieth century.
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 A Country of the Mind
At the sublunary level, below the Parnassian heights where such spiritual wagers are made, both Beckett and Yeats came from specific places that were to prove enormously significant for their art, which in each case is so centrally involved with memory and the emotions it arouses.
William Murphy wrote the standard life of John Butler Yeats and explored the family nexus in ''Family Secrets,'' and there are studies of the Yeats sisters to complicate the picture.
It is always Yeats the artist whom he seeks to highlight rather than the Yeats who painted subjects amenable to nationalist interpretation.
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 @BC » Feature Archive » Card catalog
In 1902, Elizabeth and Susan Yeats founded a small printing press in Dundrum, Ireland.
Originally called the Dun Emer Press, the enterprise took on a new name in 1908, when the Yeats sisters moved the business to Dublin, whose ancient name was Cuala.
The press itself was part of a women’s craft cooperative that was founded, according to its prospectus, “to find work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things.” The press provided women with the rare opportunity to train in printing, painting, and drawing, as well as in Irish language, dance, and culture.
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