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Butler was born on February 20, 1825, in Albany, New York. He was the son of the poet and lawyer Benjamin Franklin Butler and his wife Harriet Allen and, via his mother, the nephew of naval hero William Howard Allen. Butler graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1843 and became a New York lawyer. [2]
This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised.
The Song of the Happy Shepherd" is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was first published under this title in his first book, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems , but in fact the same poem had appeared twice before: as an epilogue to Yeats' poem The Isle of Statues , and again as an epilogue to his verse play Mosada .
The Wanderings of Oisin (/ oʊ ˈ ʃ iː n / oh-SHEEN) is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889 in the book The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. [1] It was his first publication outside magazines, and immediately won him a reputation as a significant poet. [2]
Early life [ edit ] Daughter of militia captain (William) Gilbert Hyde-Lees (1865–1909), of the Manchester Regiment , [ 3 ] and Edith Ellen (1868–1942) known as "Nelly", daughter of barrister and manufacturer Montagu Woodmass, JP , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Georgie was born in Fleet, Hampshire on 16 October 1892.
The poem has a convenient form; ten lines in length with each line holding four stresses. It is almost like a confining grid, emphasizing the Old Mother's unbending existence. There is a clear rhyming scheme of couplets, with a nice half rhyme towards the end which rounds the poem off properly.
The Nobel prize to William Butler Yeats was well received. One writer in The Guardian said that "Mr. Yeats is to be congratulated, almost without reserve, on lifting this substantial stake. He is a poet of real greatness; prose, too, he can write like an angel", however arguing that Thomas Hardy would have been a worthier recipient of the award ...
It is the second poem in The Tower, a 1928 collection of Yeats' poems. The poem features Yeats wrestling with his old age. He contemplates the foolish actions of his neighbors and wonders how they responded to their own aging, then celebrates the Anglo-Irish people and offers them his "faith and pride" as an inheritance .