William B. Yeats

1865 - 1939 *

Irish poet, who wrote pieces of simple style related to pagan mythology. Chief proponent of the Irish Renaissance movement.

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, the son of a famed Irish painter. His simple, clear and direct verse is some of the most influential of the 20th century.

The subject matter of many of Yeats' poetry is related to pagan Irish beliefs; he was an expert in
the occult of both Irish and Eastern spirituality.

In his later life, Yeats became increasingly involved in the Irish Renaissance, and became one of its chief proponents. Many of his works relate to this movement. He later Senate of the new Irish Free State.

Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.

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Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Between the Celtic dreams of THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN (1889) and the intellectual, often obscure poetry of the 1930s, Yeats produced a tremendous amount of works. In his early career Yeats studied William Blake's poems, Emanuel Swedenborg's writings and other visionaries, but later he began to confront reality with a new directness - and disillusionment. Central theme in Yeats's poems is Ireland, its history, folklore and contemporary pub... [read entire biography]

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An enemy of consequence -- analysis of william yeats' "the lamentation of the old pensioner"
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Unrequited Love -- W.B. Yeats' relationship to Maud Gonne illustrated in his poetry.
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Symbolism in Yeats' poetry -- The notion of symbolism in (sailing to byzantium + byzantium +the second coming )
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The land of faery,
Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,
Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,
Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. -- Land of Heart's Desire.

William Butler Yeats

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams
Into a common light of common hours,
Until old age bring the red flare again. -- Land of Heart's Desire.

William Butler Yeats

I would mould a world of fire and dew
With no one bitter, grave, or over wise,
And nothing marred or old to do you wrong. -- Land of Heart's Desire.

William Butler Yeats

Land of Heart's Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song. -- Land of Heart's Desire.

William Butler Yeats

Additional searches

Yeats at Encarta Encyclopedia

Yeats at Britannica Encyclopedia

Yeats at Xrefer.com