William Butler Yeats (1865-1939 / County Dublin / Ireland)

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Dublin. His father was a lawyer turned Pre-Raphaelite painter. In 1867 the family followed him to London and settled in Bedford Park. In 1881 they returned to Dublin, where Yeats studied at the Metropolitan School of Art. Reincarnation, communication with the dead, mediums, supernatural systems and Oriental mysticism fascinated Yeats through his life. In 1886 Yeats formed the Dublin Lodge of the Hermetic Society.

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  • ''Eyes spiritualised by death can judge,
    I cannot, but I am not content.''
    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Are You Content?"
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  • ''O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
    The poets labouring all their days
    To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
    Are overthrown by a woman's gaze....''
    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "He Tells of the Perfect Beauty."
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  • ''"Old lovers yet may have
    All that time denied
    Grave is heaped on grave
    That they be satisfied
    Over the blackened earth
    The old troops parade...."''
    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Mohini Chatterjee."
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  • '''I have cap and bells,' he pondered,
    'I will send them to her and die';
    And when the morning whitened
    He left them where she went by.''
    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. The Cap and Bells (l. 21-24). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989...
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  • Barb Nixon (4/12/2012 12:55:00 PM)

    William Butler Yeats is my favourite poet, he captures a mystique and depth in his poetry that touches my soul.

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  • Sacheeka Benaragama (2/11/2012 10:52:00 PM)

    these poems are very good for childre like us

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  • (11/8/2008 12:25:00 PM)

    one of my all time favorite writers

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