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   Who was William Butler Yeats?

   • William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats’s father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter.

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   When did William Butler Yeats write the Second Coming?

   • The Second Coming, poem by William Butler Yeats, first printed in The Dial (November 1920) and published in his collection of verse entitled Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). Yeats believed that history is cyclical, and “The Second Coming”—a two-stanza poem in blank verse—with its imagery of

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   When did William Butler Yeats marry Bertha Hyde-Lees?

   • Yeats went on to marry Bertha Hyde-Lees on October 20, 1917. The marriage lasted until his death in 1939. From left to right: Walter de la Mare, Bertha Georgie Yeats, William Butler Yeats, unknown woman. Yeats married Georgie on October 20, 1917.

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   How did Yeats explain his philosophy?

   • Yeats explained his own philosophy in the prose work A Vision (1925, revised version 1937); this meditation upon the relation between imagination, history, and the occult remains indispensable to serious students of Yeats despite its obscurities.

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   May 21, 2024 · William Butler Yeats (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland—died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

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   • William Butler Yeats’s father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother, formerly Susan Pollexfen, w...
   • Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer William Butler Yeats was the preeminent writer of the Irish literary renaissance at the turn of the 20th ce...
   • In his early writings, William Butler Yeats evoked a legendary and supernatural Ireland, more pagan than Christian. He hoped to instill pride in th...

3. guides.library.duq.edu › wbyeatsHome - W. B. Yeats - LibGuides at Duquesne University

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   May 2, 2024 · W. B. Yeats: Home. Drawing of William Butler Yeats, by John Singer Sargent, 1908. This research guide is designed to connect the researcher quickly to many sorts of information sources on William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), the most well-known and influential Irish poet of modern times.

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   May 10, 2024 · Glen Rix. Updated: May 10, 2024 3:32 PM EDT. William Butler Yeats, circa 1903. Alice Boughton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. What Is the Theme of 'When You Are Old' by William Butler Yeats? The central theme of W. B. Yeats' poem 'When You Are Old' is unrequited love.

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   2 days ago · Answer: Dublin. One of the foremost figures in Irish literature during the late 19th and early 20th century, William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on 13 June 1865. He came from an Anglo-Irish family, and developed a fascination with Irish legends as a youth.

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   May 16, 2024 · The Second Coming, poem by William Butler Yeats, first printed in The Dial (November 1920) and published in his collection of verse entitled Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). Yeats believed that history is cyclical, and “The Second Coming”—a two-stanza poem in blank verse—with its imagery of.

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   4 days ago · People. W.B. Yeats. Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, William Butler (W.B.) Yeats (1865–1939), is considered to this day as one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. W.B. Yeats. By Editor. June 13, 1865. No comments. W.B. YEATS (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939)

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   6 days ago · University Communications | January 2021. A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney.