 |
William Butler Yeats poet
Born: 6/13/1865
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Nobel Prize-winning Anglo-Irish poet whose work interweaves mysticism, Irish history, love, and self-analysis. Yeat's books include The Rose (1893), The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), Responsibilities (1914), and The Tower (1928). He also wrote essays and plays, was active in the Irish National Theatre and served as an Irish senator.
 Archive Photos |
Died: 1/28/1939
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on William Butler Yeats from Infoplease:
- W. B. Yeats - Yeats, W. B. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler Yeats), 1865–1939, Irish poet and playwright, b. ...
- June 13 Birthdays: William Butler Yeats - June 13 birthdays: William Butler Yeats, Mary Antin, Christo, Dorothy L. Sayers
- William Butler Yeats: The Leaders of the Crowd - They must to keep their certainty accuse All that are different of a base intent; Pull down established honour; hawk for news Whatever their loose pha
- William Butler Yeats: The Rose Tree - O words are lightly spoken Said Pearse to Connolly, Maybe a breath of politic words Has withered our Rose Tree; Or maybe but a wind that blows Across
- William Butler Yeats: On a Political Prisoner - She that but little patience knew, From childhood on, had now so much A grey gull lost its fear and flew Down to her cell and there alit, And there en
|
|
