Search results
W. B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the ...
Biography. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) stands at the turning point between the Victorian period and Modernism, the conflicting currents of which affected his poetry. Born in Dublin, Yeats’ family moved to London when he was two and he lived there until he was sixteen. His mother’s traditional Irish songs and stories and holiday visits ...
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. William Butler Yeats. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923. Born: 13 June 1865, Dublin, Ireland. Died: 28 January 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. Residence at the time of the award: Ireland. Prize motivation: “for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the ...
In Memory of W. B. Yeats. The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. The day of his death was a dark cold day. The death of the poet was kept from his poems. The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers. And be punished under a foreign code of conscience. Are modified in the guts of the living.
ウィリアム・バトラー・イェイツ （ William Butler Yeats 、 1865年 6月13日 - 1939年 1月28日 ）は、 アイルランド の 詩人 ・ 劇作家 ・思想家 [1] 。. 散文 、批評も書き、ジャーナリスト、オカルティストであり、独自の思想を展開した [2] 。. 現代詩 の世界に新境地 ...
The W.B. Yeats Foundation. The Yeats Foundation was established by Yeats scholar, producer and theater director James Flannery in 1989, the fiftieth anniversary of the poet’s death, in order to honor his enormous achievement as a man and artist and thereby gain a greater understanding and appreciation of the richness and diversity of Irish culture.
Easter, 1916. By William Butler Yeats. I have met them at close of day. Coming with vivid faces. From counter or desk among grey. Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head. Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said.
