William Butler Yeats (/jeɪts/, 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century...
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John Butler Yeats RHA (16 March 1839 – 3 February 1922) was an Irish artist and the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lollie" Yeats and...
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LÉ William Butler Yeats (P63) is a Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel of the Irish Naval Service. Named after poet W. B. Yeats, the ship is the...
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Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees; 16 October 1892 – 23 August 1968) was the wife of the poet William Butler Yeats. Daughter of militia captain (William) Gilbert...
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Butler Yeats is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), Irish artist, brother of William John Butler Yeats...
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ISBN 978-0716513841. Retrieved 10 May 2016. Works by W. B. Yeats in eBook form at Standard Ebooks Works by William Butler Yeats at Project Gutenberg Complete works at Archive...
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literature. William Butler Yeats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Most of his work has Irish subjects. Yeats was also a successful...
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Abbey Theatre (section William Butler Yeats)
served as a nursery for many of leading Irish playwrights, including William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, Seán O'Casey and John Millington Synge, as well as...
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Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of...
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Down by the Salley Gardens (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
Gort na Saileán) is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889. Yeats indicated in a note that it was...
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was the daughter of John Butler Yeats and Susan Yeats (née Pollexfen). Her siblings were William Butler, Jack and Elizabeth Yeats. She was a sick child....
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in November 2011, A further three vessels were named James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, and delivered in 2015, 2016 and 2018 respectively...
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Butler Yeats (26 February 1919 – 4 July 2001) was an Irish painter, costume and stage designer. She was the daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats...
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Retrieved 18 March 2025. "LÉ William Butler Yeats P63". military.ie. Retrieved 18 March 2025. "LÉ William Butler Yeats formally enters service". Raidió...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
1893 in poetry List of works by William Butler Yeats Jochum, Klaus Peter (2013) [2006]. The Reception of W.B. Yeats in France. Continuum. p. 33. ASIN B00CKU3KV4...
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private press founded in 1902 by Evelyn Gleeson, Elizabeth Yeats and her brother William Butler Yeats, part of the Celtic Revival. It was named after the legendary...
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The Second Coming (poem) (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
to be born? “The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included...
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Revival The National Library of Ireland's exhibition, Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats Archived 3 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine Irish...
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Rangers' arrival, William Butler Yeats drew closer to Matthew and attempted to stop it. After Matthew moved erratically, William Butler Yeats fired a single...
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A Vision (category Works by W. B. Yeats)
historical, astrological, and poetic topics by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Yeats wrote this work while experimenting with automatic writing alongside...
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The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published...
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next nine years. Credits from this period include William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, W. B. Yeats' King Oedipus, George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan,...
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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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Sailing to Byzantium (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
article: Sailing to Byzantium "Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 and then...
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the Irish artist John Butler Yeats and Susan Yeats (née Pollexfen). She was sister to W. B., Jack and Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats. From the age of four she...
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The Stolen Child (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
by William Butler Yeats, published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats's more...
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Drumcliff (section William Butler Yeats)
Horseman, pass by. Yeats paternal great-grandfather was rector in Drumcliff, as John Butler Yeats remarked in a letter to his son William in 1913: My father...
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Lapis lazuli (section Yeats)
lazuli paint, in the Girl with a Pearl Earring painting. The poet, William Butler Yeats, describes a figurine of sculpted lapis lazuli in a poem entitled...
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A Prayer for My Daughter (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the...
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Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" in later publications, is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was published in 1899 in his third volume of poetry, The Wind...
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