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	William Butler Yeats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yeats' early poetry drew heavily on Irish myth and folklore and drew on the diction and coloring of pre-Raphaelite verse.
		Yeats developed an obsession with Gonne, and she was to have a significant effect on his poetry and his life ever after.
		Yeats was appointed to the Irish Senate (Seanad Éireann) in 1922 and one of his main achievements as a Senator was to chair the coinage committee that was charged with selecting a set of designs for the first coinage for the Irish Free State (and the costumes of Irish judges!).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Butler_Yeats (2442 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia William Butler Yeats - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939) (also often referred to as W.B. Yeats) was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic.
		Born in Dublin, in 1865, the firstborn of John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Yeats.
		In 1889, Yeats met Maud Gonne[?], an actress and a figure in the Irish nationalist movement who was to have a significant effect on his poetry and his life ever after.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/wi/William_Butler_Yeats (578 words)

	William Butler Yeats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Butler Yeats (1865—1939) was born in Sandymount Avenue, Dublin on 13 June 1865 and died in Monaco on 28 January 1939.
		Yeats is at his most ‘philosophical’ in his exploratory reflections on the notions of self and anti-self.
		For Yeats the real or true self is not some God-given or nature-given primary self but the achieved self, that ‘theatrical’ second self that is deliberately and artfully fashioned in the course of a disciplined, productive life.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/yeats.htm (1431 words)

	William Butler Yeats Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
		William Butler Yeats (June 13,1865 - January 28, 1939) (also often referred to as W.B. Yeats) was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic.
		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.
		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.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_butler_yeats.html (903 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - W. B. Yeats
		William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865, the son of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats.
		Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland, and in the twenties, despite Irish independence from England, his verse reflected a pessimism about the political situation in his country and the rest of Europe, paralleling the increasing conservativism of his American counterparts in London, T.
		Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 at the age of 73.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/117 (406 words)

	William Butler Yeats: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John butler yeats (born tullylish 16 march 1839, died 3 february 1922) was an irish artist and the father of william butler yeats and jack butler...
		Susan yeats (1866 — 1949), known as lily, was born in county sligo, ireland....
		Frank fay (1870—1931), brother of william fay, was an actor and co-founder of the abbey theatre....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_butler_yeats.htm (5504 words)

	William Butler Yeats: The Man, The Writer
		Yeats would become a youth full of internal contradictions, often spawned by his desire to question all that he was taught.
		Yeats labeled himself a socialist, one who despised the middle classes, and his ideal Ireland was divided between a hard-riding Protestant of fine artistic tastes and a devout Catholic peasantry, full of instinctive wisdom and preserving a living folklore (Rogers, 384).
		Yeats was more of a revolutionary and more of a contributor to English Literature than any of his peers, and arguably one of the largest contributors in history.
	www.usna.edu /EnglishDept/ilv/yeats.htm (1999 words)

	William Butler Yeats
		It is largely due to the leadership and vision of W. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory that we owe later successes of dramatists like Padriac Colum, J.
		This was Yeats first prose dramatic work, and strangely enough, it succeeded in pleasing even the critics who has attacked his other plays with so much bitterness.
		William Butler Yeats - a biographical sketch and analysis of his theatrical output.
	www.theatrehistory.com /irish/yeats001.html (381 words)

	Biography of William Butler Yeats
		William Butler Yeats is one of the many famous names to come from the original Golden Dawn.
		William Butler Yeats was third-generation Irish, born in Dublin on June 13, 1865.
		Yeats continued his search for knowledge of that which is not written for man to read.
	www.golden-dawn.org /bioyeats.html (1030 words)

	William Butler Yeats
		William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, on June 13, 1865, the son of a well- known Irish painter and and religious skeptic, John Butler Yeats.
		Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland, and in the twenties, despite Irish independence from England, his poems reflected a negativity towards the political situation in his country and the rest of Europe.
		William Yeats tells of an old gentleman who has an old wife who is beginning to show her age.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1298/yeats.html (883 words)

	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.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/yeats.wb.html (1299 words)

	Cordula's Web. William Butler Yeats
		William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939), often referred to as W.B. Yeats, was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic.
		Yeats spent the summer of 1917 with Maud Gonne, and proposed to Gonne's daughter, but was rejected.
		Yeats was first buried at Roquebrune, until his body was moved to Drumecliff, Sligo in September, 1948.
	www.cordula.ws /a-yeatswb.html (1247 words)

	William Butler Yeats Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Butler Yeats was one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century as well as a dramatist and prose writer.
		Born in Dublin, Yeats’ Irish origins inspired much of his earlier work, as he was interested in folktales as a part of an exploration of national heritage and a revival of Celtic identity.
		Yeats wrote right up to the end of his days and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
	www.thedailyinspiration.com /cgi/author.php?id=w_b_yeats (157 words)

	William Butler Yeats - Biography and Works
		William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century.
		William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Dublin.
		Yeats was interested in folktales as a part of an exploration of national heritage and for the revival of Celtic identity.
	www.online-literature.com /yeats (1334 words)

	Famous Irish - William Butler Yeats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Butler Yeats was a leader in the Irish literary renaissance who is best known for his poetry and dramaticism.
		William Butler Yeats is best known for his poems, of which Easter 1916, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Leda and the Swan, and When you are Old are probably the most famous.
		But William was also a devoted Irishman who played no small part in the revival of Irish nationalism which eventually led to independence and freedom for Ireland.
	www.irishclans.com /articles/famirish/yeatswb.html (514 words)

	William Butler Yeats - Books and Biography
		William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin into an Irish Protestant family.
		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.
		Yeats died in 1939 at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France.
	www.readprint.com /author-93/William-Butler-Yeats (1258 words)

	Yeats, W. B. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The greatest lyric poet Ireland has produced and one of the major figures of 20th-century literature, Yeats was the acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance.
		Son of the painter John Butler Yeats, William studied painting in Dublin (1883–86).
		Yeats ultimately became a respected public figure, a member (1922–28) of the Irish senate, and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ye/Yeats-Wi.html (681 words)

	William Butler Yeats - Poetry Archive
		William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) stands at the turning point between the Victorian period and Modernism, the conflicting currents of which affected his poetry.
		Yeats' was now entering his poetic maturity in which he developed a symbolism to mediate between the demands of art and life.
		It's a music that's proved popular ever since as Yeats concedes in the introduction to his reading, though he criticises his use of the archaism "arise and go" and the inversion of the final stanza, the kind of poetic flourishes he learned to banish from later work.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1688 (630 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: William Butler Yeats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yeats himself penned works for its stage, most notably “Four Plays for Dancers” (1921), which is credited with bringing a new poetic sensibility back to drama.
		Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, Yeats is considered one of the finest poetic voices of the century -- in Ireland or otherwise.
		The "Audible Yeats" includes audio files of the poet reading five of his poems; the "Visible Yeats" is a compendium of "as many links as possible to images of places and objects that appear in his work." The webmaster provides illustrations for several poems, but fails, unfortunately, to indicate their titles.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=526 (556 words)

	William Butler Yeats
		Yeats is the greatest lyric poet Ireland has ever produced, and he is one of the major literary figures of the 20th-century and the acknowledged leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance.
		In 1900, Yeats was elected by the temple as an Instructor in Mystical Philosophy.
		Yeats’ wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, was a spiritualist medium and supposedly communicated messages to Yeats for seven years from her spirit masters.
	www.wvup.edu /Academics/humanities/Oldaker/william_butler_yeats.htm (1766 words)

	Yeats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yeats is the surname of a notable Irish family:
		William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet and playwright, Nobel prize winner
		Elizabeth Yeats (1868-1940), active in the Arts and Crafts movement and editor of the Dun Emer Press
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yeats (155 words)

	William Butler Yeats Arrangement @ BornYesterday.com (Born Yesterday) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Butler Yeats Arrangement @ BornYesterday.com (Born Yesterday)
		His first book publication was the pamphlet Mosada: A Dramatic Poem (1886), which had already appeared in the same journal, and this printing of 100 copies was paid for by his father.
		One of the most significant of these was Douglas Hyde, later the first President of Ireland, whose Love Songs of Connacht was widely admired.
	www.bornyesterday.com /encyclopedia/William_Butler_Yeats (1744 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Poet's Corner - Biographies - William Butler Yeats
		Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865, the eldest of four children.
		His father, John Butler Yeats, was the son of a once-affluent family whom Oscar Wilde's father, Sir William Wilde, described as "the cleverest, most spirited people I ever met." Yeats' parents had an important influence on the young artist's life.
		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.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/poets/bio/yeats_w.htm (821 words)

	William Butler Yeats - bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Butler Yeats has secured his seat in literary history for all time.
		Yeats grew up as the son of famous Irish painter John Butler Yeats.
		It is no wonder that William Butler Yeats has made such a footprint in the world of literature.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/3044biosp-z/yeats.html (468 words)

	William Butler Yeats Collection at Bartleby.com
		All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: / One time it was a woman’s face, or worse— / The seeming needs of my fool-driven land.
		The greatest lyric poet Ireland has produced and one of the major figures of 20th-century literature, Yeats was the acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
		Collections of verse by one of the greatest lyric poets of twentieth-century literature.
	www.bartleby.com /people/Yeats-Wi.html (113 words)

	William Butler Yeats Life Stories, Books, & Links
		Since 1965 it has been a Yeats museum and a popular tourist spot, though not as popular as his gravesite in the Drumcliff churchyard of his ancestors -- where his own remains may or may not be buried.
		"Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland, and in the twenties, despite Irish independence from England, his verse reflected a pessimism about the political situation in his country and the rest of Europe, paralleling the increasing conservativism of his American counterparts in London, T. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
		Yeats was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." As the biography notes, "Yeats is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize.
	todayinliterature.com /biography/william.butler.yeats.asp (820 words)

	William Butler Yeats - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This group of founders was also able, along with John Millington Synge, to acquire property in Dublin and open the Abbey Theatre on December 27, 1904.
		His political concerns also moved away from the arena of cultural politics he was so involved in during the early years of the Revival.
		After suffering from a variety of illnesses for a number of years, Yeats died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France on 28 January, 1939, eight months before the German invasion of Poland.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/William_Butler_Yeats (2684 words)

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