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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 ...
Walter de la Mare, Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees), William Butler Yeats, unknown woman, summer 1930; photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell. Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats (born Bertha Hyde-Lees, 1892 – 1968) [1] was the wife of the poet William Butler Yeats.
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 ...
In 1894 he moved to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and returned to Ireland. Synge suffered from Hodgkin's disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin's-related cancer while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. His relatively few ...
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) [1] was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
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.
Lindsay himself indicated in the 1915 preface to "The Congo" that no less a figure than William Butler Yeats respected his work. Yeats felt they shared a concern for capturing the sound of the primitive and of singing in poetry. In 1915, Lindsay gave a poetry reading to President Woodrow Wilson and the entire Cabinet. [citation needed]
Their father, John Butler Yeats, had to castigate his son William for sending overtly critical letters to his sisters about the press. However, Cuala produced magnificent books: W. B. Yeats' The green helmet and other poems (1910) and a series of Broadsides (published 1908–15, with illustrations from Jack Yeats). [1]