William Butler Yeats and his Poetry by Ruby's Padlets ♥

William Butler Yeats

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Here is a sketchy drawing of him which I thought was quite mysterious and interesting.

Birth and Death

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He was an Irish poet and playwright. He was...

Born: 13 Jun 1865 · Sandymount, Ireland (below)

Died: 28 Jan 1939 · Menton, France

His childhood and youth

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Yeats was born and educated in Dublin, but spent his childhood in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889 and those slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Pre-Raphaelite poets. From 1900, Yeats' poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.

His life achievements

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He served as an Irish Senator for two terms in his later years and it was he, along with Lady Gregory, who was the driving force behind the Irish literary Revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).

Histry of Ireland (1801 - 1923)

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Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922. For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in Londonthrough its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland faced considerable economic difficulties in the 19th century, including the Great Famine of the 1840s. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a vigorous campaign for Irish Home Rule. While legislation enabling Irish Home Rule was eventually passed, militant and armed opposition from Irish unionists, particularly in Ulster, opposed it. Proclamation was shelved for the duration following the outbreak of the Great War. By 1918, however, moderate Irish nationalism had been eclipsed by militant republican separatism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(1801%E2%80%931923)

More on Ireland's History

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In 1919, war broke out between republican separatists and British Government forces. In 1921, the British Government partitioned Ireland into two semi-autonomous regions: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, co-ordinated by a Council of Ireland. Upon Royal Assent, the Parliament of Northern Ireland came into being in 1921. However, the institutions of Southern Ireland never became functional. On 11 July 1921, a ceasefire was agreed between the separatists and the British Government. Later talks led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which resulted five-sixths of Ireland seceding from the United Kingdom and forming the Irish Free State, while Northern Ireland opted to remain part of the UK.

Archive of poems by Yeats

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Maud Gonne

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Born:	(1866-12-21)21 December 1866 Tongham, England
Died:	27 April 1953(1953-04-27) (aged 86) Clonskeagh, Republic of Ireland

Maud Gonne MacBride

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(Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mac Giolla Bhríghde, 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with poet William Butler Yeats. Of Anglo-Irish stock and birth, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars. She was also active in Home Rule activities.

Random Facts about him my Mum found for me :)

140071 — 2014-12-14 13:53:37 UTC

In the course of his long life, he became known as the director of the Abbey Theatre as well as a wonderful poet. He is now regarded as the greatest English poet of the century and had been called by Kenneth Allott ' the greatest English poet since Wordsworth'. (Don't get confused here, he is actually Irish, but everyone makes the mistake of saying that he is English)