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    Text reproduced from Yeats's own handwritten draft. Foster 1997, p. 184. Sophocles; Yeats, William Butler (1989). W.B. Yeats, the Writing of Sophocles'...
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    landholders, his father was the painter John Butler Yeats, and his brother was the poet W. B. Yeats. Jack B. was born in London but was raised in County Sligo...
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  • This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major...
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    Butler Yeats (16 March 1839 – 3 February 1922) was an Irish artist and the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lollie" Yeats and Jack...
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    MV W.B. Yeats is a RORO passenger and freight vessel in the fleet of Irish Ferries. She arrived in Dublin for the first time on 20 December 2018 and entered...
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  • W. B. Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright. Yeats may also refer to: Yeats (surname), a surname and list of people with the name Yeats (crater), an impact...
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  • The Second Coming (poem) (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Second ed.). Fakenham: Cox and Wyman Ltd. p. 131, 151-153. ISBN 0415500605. Yeats, W. B.; Harper, George Mills; Hood...
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  • album contains 14 tracks, all of which are based upon the poetry of W. B. Yeats, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott. Scott premiered...
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    by her brother W. B. Yeats. She was the first commercial printer in Ireland to work exclusively with hand presses. Elizabeth Corbet Yeats was born at 23...
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    Cuala Press (category EngvarB from April 2018)
    Irish private press set up in 1908 by Elizabeth Yeats with support from her brother William Butler Yeats that played an important role in the Celtic Revival...
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  • The Tower (poetry collection) (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    The Tower is a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel...
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    Maud Gonne (category Butler Yeats family)
    she first met W. B. Yeats, who fell in love with her. Gonne was attracted to the occultist and spiritualist worlds deeply important to Yeats, asking his...
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    Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats (born Bertha Hyde-Lees, 1892 – 1968) was the wife of the poet William Butler Yeats. Daughter of militia captain (William) Gilbert...
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    ranged from sharply dismissive (treating him as a lesser figure than W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot) to strongly affirmative (as in Joseph Brodsky's statement...
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    The Yellow Book, and was seated opposite W. B. Yeats. Recently returned from visiting Maud Gonne in Paris, Yeats was in London for the production of his...
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    Dublin lock-out (category EngvarB from October 2013)
    forced to declare bankruptcy. September 1913, one of the most famous of W. B. Yeats' poems, was published in The Irish Times during the lock-out. Although...
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    early. When the Yeats family moved to Bedford Park in London, which occurred in 1879, Ellis met the son William Butler Yeats. W. B. Yeats became close to...
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  • Irish Literary Revival (category EngvarB from October 2013)
    F. (1997). W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage. New York: Oxford UP. ISBN 0-19-288085-3. Foster, R. F. (2003). W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol...
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    Susan Mary Yeats (/ˈjeɪts/; 25 August 1866 – 5 January 1949), known as Lily Yeats, was an embroiderer associated with the Celtic Revival. In 1908 she founded...
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  • favourite. During the 1920s he was a collaborator and correspondent of W. B. Yeats, particularly in matters of astrology. Frank Pearce Sturm: His Life,...
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    invaluable preface by W. B. Yeats. An introduction by poet W. B. Yeats was added to the second edition of Song Offerings. Yeats wrote that this volume...
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  • novel takes its title from a verse of the poem, "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. It was written in three parts, and was followed by a sequel, No Longer...
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  • by W. B. Yeats. The earlier version by Yeats was set as a war song by Ivor Gurney (1920). COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS 2008 William Butler Yeats. 25...
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    buried in St. Pancras Cemetery, London. Yeats' biographer David Pierce notes of Mabel that: "According to Yeats, in reference to the Rhymers' Club, she...
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  • Down by the Salley Gardens (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    ISBN 0333352149. Ford, Robert (1997). W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol 1. The Apprentice Mage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 69. Yeats, W. B. (2021) [1996]. Finnegan...
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  • Georgie Hyde-Lees, a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats, and of Lily Yeats and of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Her aunts were associated with the arts and crafts...
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  • "September 1913" is a poem by W. B. Yeats, written in 1913. It was composed in response to the Hugh Lane controversy, where William Martin Murphy and...
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    Ezra Pound (redirect from Ezra W. L. Pound)
    introduced to the poet WBYeats, Olivia Shakespear's former lover. He had already sent Yeats a copy of A Lume Spento, and Yeats had apparently found...
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  • Sailing to Byzantium (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    his conception of paradise. Written in 1926 (when Yeats was 60 or 61), "Sailing to Byzantium" is Yeats' definitive statement about the agony of old age...
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  • The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    collection of poems by W. B. Yeats. It was published in 1889. In addition to the title poem, the last epic-scale poem that Yeats ever wrote, the book includes...
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