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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 ...
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Poet, Dramatist, Man of the Theatre W.B. Yeats, generally acknowledged to be the greatest poet of the modern era, lived an extraordinarily rich and productive life as the founder and guiding spirit of the Irish Literary Revival and the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland.
William Butler Yeats, (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ire.—died Jan. 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France), Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer.The son of a well-known painter, Yeats early developed an interest in mysticism and visionary traditions as well as in Irish folklore, and both interests would continue to be sources of poetic imagery for him.
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 ...
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....
How the conflict of a nation was captured by a politically reluctant poet. One of the most powerful political poems of the 20th century was written by a man who was ambivalent about politics. William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) began his career under the spell of the late Victorian era. Art in that time was generally more romantic than worldly.
May 5, 2017 · In the last analysis, it is at once direct and elliptical in its meaning – typical Yeats, we might say. The symbols refuse to be pinned down too tightly. In order to dance, after all, one must have some freedom. About W. B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest of all Irish poets.
