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William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland. [1] His father John was a descendant of Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier, linen merchant, and well-known painter, who died in 1712. [2] Benjamin Yeats, Jervis's grandson and William's great-great-grandfather, had in 1773 [3] married Mary Butler [4] of a landed family in ...
He was a long-term friend and correspondent of W. B. Yeats, who was to describe him as "one of the most exquisite poets writing in England". He was also a playwright, writing a Medea influenced by Yeats' drama and the Japanese Noh style. As a wood-engraver and artist he designed the covers for poetry editions of Yeats and others, as well as ...
In 1904, thanks to the influence of Edward Dowden, [6] Magee was appointed as a librarian at the National Library of Ireland. [7] In 1905, Some Essays and Passages by John Eglinton, selected by William Butler Yeats became one of the small number of books published by the Yeats family's Dun Emer Press. [10]
In 1899 he joined Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory and George William Russell to form the Irish National Theatre Society, which later established the Abbey Theatre. [ 15 ] [ 9 ] He wrote some pieces of literary criticism for Gonne's Irlande Libre and other journals, as well as unpublished poems and prose in a decadent fin de siècle style. [ 16 ] (
While he had not visited Ireland at this point in his life, it is possible that Hawk Tower is based on Francis Joseph Bigger's 'Castle Séan' at Ardglass, County Down, which had also in turn influenced William Butler Yeats' choice of a poet's tower, Thoor Ballylee. Construction on Tor House continued into the late 1950s and early 1960s, and was ...
Jeanne Robert Foster is buried near her friend John Butler Yeats, the painter and father of William Butler Yeats, in the Foster family plot in Chestertown Rural Cemetery in the Adirondacks. [ 11 ] Her own papers can be found in the Jeanne R. Foster-William M. Murphy Collection at the New York Public Library and at Harvard University ’s ...
William Butler Yeats, whose poetry was an influence on Larkin in the mid-1940s. It was during Larkin's five years in Belfast that he reached maturity as a poet. [82] The bulk of his next published collection of poems, The Less Deceived (1955), was written there, though eight of the twenty-nine poems included were from the late 1940s.
Charles Johnston studied at Derby, England and Dublin University becoming interested in Oriental Studies, and learned Sanskrit, Russian and German. Among his classmates were William Butler Yeats [1] and George William Russell, with whom he shared an interest in the occult. [2]