William butler yeats

W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats) (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount and was educated in Dublin and London and spent…

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” Photograph - William Butler Yeats by Alice Boughton

The Early Years: 1865-1885 - Born in Sandymount in Dublin on June 13th, 1865 to Susan Mary Pollexfen, who came from a wealthy merchant family in Sligo town, and John Butler Yeats, who is best remembered for his artwork.

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop’ first appeared as part of the collection Words for Music Perhaps in 1932; it is one of W. B. Yeats’s later poems and…

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WB Yeats

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep,