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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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  • 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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    Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother. Butler's early style was...
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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 "Lolly" 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • "September 1913" is a poem by W. B. Yeats. The poem was written midway through his life as a highly reflective poem which is rooted within the turbulent...
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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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    The Ten Principal Upanishads (category Works by W. B. Yeats)
    works of W. B. Yeats. Irish theosophist-writer George William Russell (also known as Æ) would often quote passages of the Upanishads to Yeats during their...
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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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    Ezra Pound (redirect from Ezra W. L. Pound)
    introduced to the poet W. B. Yeats, 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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  • 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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  • Under Ben Bulben (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    "Under Ben Bulben" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. It is believed to be one of the last poems he wrote, being drafted when he was 73, in...
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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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  • The Second Coming (poem) (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    Bethlehem to be born? "The Second Coming" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Seamus Heaney, and Rita Dove. Vendler wrote books on Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney. She was a member of...
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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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  • 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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    Howes, John S. Kelly, The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats, 2006, p. 11 Hedayati-Rad, Arjang. "W. B. Yeats, George Hyde-Lees, and the Automatic Script"....
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  • father was the poet W. B. Yeats, who likewise served in the Seanad, and his mother was Georgie Hyde-Lees. His sister Anne Yeats was a painter and designer...
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  • Down by the Salley Gardens (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    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 "an attempt...
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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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