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William Butler Yeats
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet. Born in Sandymount, Yeats was raised between Sligo, England, and Dublin by John Butler Yeats, a prominent painter, and Susan Mary Pollexfen, the daughter o...view moreW.B. Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet. Born in Sandymount, Yeats was raised between Sligo, England, and Dublin by John Butler Yeats, a prominent painter, and Susan Mary Pollexfen, the daughter of a wealthy merchant family. He began writing poetry around the age of seventeen, influenced by the Romantics and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but soon turned to Irish folklore and the mystical writings of William Blake for inspiration. As a young man he joined and founded several occult societies, including the Dublin Hermetic Order and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, participating in séances and rituals as well as acting as a recruiter. While these interests continued throughout Yeats’ life, the poet dedicated much of his middle years to the struggle for Irish independence. In 1904, alongside John Millington Synge, Florence Farr, the Fay brothers, and Annie Horniman, Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, which opened with his play Cathleen ni Houlihan and Lady Gregory’s Spreading the News and remains Ireland’s premier venue for the dramatic arts to this day. Although he was an Irish Nationalist, and despite his work toward establishing a distinctly Irish movement in the arts, Yeats—as is evident in his poem “Easter, 1916”—struggled to identify his idealism with the sectarian violence that emerged with the Easter Rising in 1916. Following the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, however, Yeats was appointed to the role of Senator and served two terms in the position. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and continued to write and publish poetry, philosophical and occult writings, and plays until his death in 1939.view less

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  • TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY - Christmas Carols & Poems: 150+ Holiday Songs, Poetry & Rhymes

    Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Big Christmas Basket: 200+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems & Carols (Illustrated): Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…

    Author Louisa May Alcott
  • The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • CLASSICS FOR CHRISTMAS: 180+ Novels, Christmas Tales, Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated): The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, Christmas Bells, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Mistletoe Bough, The Wonderful Life of Christ…

    Author Louisa May Alcott
  • A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIV

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Christmas Poems & Carols - Premium Collection of the Greatest Christmas Poems in One Volume (Illustrated): Silent Night, Ring Out Wild Bells, The Three Kings, Old Santa Claus, Christmas At Sea, Angels from the Realms of Glory, A Christmas Ghost Story, Boar's Head Carol, A Visit From Saint Nicholas…

    Author Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The Celtic Twilight

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • "Easter 1916" and Other Poems

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Early Poems

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherman and Dhoya

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Selected Poems And Four Plays

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition

    Author William Butler Yeats

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  • Poem A Day, A Summer - The Season in Verse: Poems to make your day

    Author Charles Dickens
  • Poets of the 19th Century, The - Volume 4: History revealed in verse

    Author Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Celtic Twilight

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Deep-Sworn Vow

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Easter, 1916

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • A Drinking Song

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Magi

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Wind Among the Reeds

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • In the Seven Woods

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Wild Swans at Coole

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Wanderings of Oisin

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Voices of Poetry, Volume 2

    Author Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • The Poetry of September

    Author Robert Browning
  • The Poetry Of Ireland

    Author Louis MacNeice
  • The Very Best of William Butler Yeats

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Poetry of W.B. Yeats

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Great Poets, The: W.B. Yeats

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • W. B. Yeats: Poems

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • The Life & Works of W. B. Yeats

    Author William Butler Yeats
  • Red Hanrahan

    Author William Butler Yeats

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  • Voices of Poetry

    Author Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Voices of Poetry, Volume 2

    Author Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  • Down By The Sally Gardens

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    Author Irish air 'The Maids Of Mourne
  • Down By The Salley Gardens

    Author Traditional Irish Folk Song
  • Down By The Salley Gardens

    Author Traditional Irish Folk Song

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