William Butler Yeats

W.B. Yeats (1903)

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic. He was born in Dublin, Ireland on 13 June 1865.^[1] He spent most of his time in Sligo and some time in London.

Yeats' early poetry drew heavily on myth and legend. His later work had more to do with contemporary issues. One of his famous poems is called "Leda and the Swan".

With Lady Gregory and others, he was one of the people who founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre.

He was also interested in Hermeticism and Theosophy. He was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Yeats won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1923. He died in Menton, France.

William Butler Yeats Media

1900 portrait by Yeats's father, John Butler Yeats
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Charcoal portrait of Yeats by John Singer Sargent (1908)
Yeats photographed in 1908 by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Yeats in Dublin on 12 December 1922, at the start of his term as member of the Seanad Eireann
Walter de la Mare, Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees), William Butler Yeats, unknown woman, summer 1930; photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell
Yeats photographed in 1923
William Butler Yeats, 1933; photo by Pirie MacDonald (Library of Congress)

References

↑ "W.B. YEATS DEAD; FAMOUS IRISH POET; Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 Is Stricken in France". The New York Times. 30 January 1939. https://www.nytimes.com/1939/01/30/archives/wb-yeats-dead-famous-irish-poet-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-for.html. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

[1] "W.B. YEATS DEAD; FAMOUS IRISH POET; Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 Is Stricken in France". The New York Times. 30 January 1939. https://www.nytimes.com/1939/01/30/archives/wb-yeats-dead-famous-irish-poet-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-for.html. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

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