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    William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature...
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    John 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...
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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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    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 Hyde-Lees Yeats (born Bertha Hyde-Lees, 1892 – 1968) was the wife of the poet William Butler Yeats. Daughter of militia captain (William) Gilbert Hyde-Lees...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    Innisfree" is a twelve-line poem comprising three quatrains, written by William Butler Yeats in 1888 and first published in the National Observer in 1890. It...
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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 the 1927 reprint of Stories of Red Hanrahan and...
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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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    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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    James Joyce, replaced LÉ Aoife in 2015. The option for a third, LÉ William Butler Yeats, was exercised in June 2014 and commissioned in October 2016. The...
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  • Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was published in 1899 in his third volume of poetry, The Wind Among the Reeds...
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    The Stolen Child (category Poetry by W. B. Yeats)
    "The Stolen Child" is an 1889 poem by William Butler Yeats, published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. Wikisource has original text related...
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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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    Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats' Tower because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats. It has been described as ‘the most...
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    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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  • Irish Literary Revival The National Library of Ireland's exhibition, Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats Irish culture leading to 1916...
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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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  • Oedipus Rex (1957 film) (category Adaptations of works by W. B. Yeats)
    film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival production of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. The actors performed...
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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 with...
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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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    The Land of Heart's Desire (category Plays by W. B. Yeats)
    Desire is a play by Irish poet, dramatist, and 1923 Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats. First performed in the spring of 1894, at the Avenue Theatre in...
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  • Purgatory (drama) (category Plays by W. B. Yeats)
    Irish writer William Butler Yeats. It was first presented in at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 19 August 1938, a few months before Yeats' death. It tells...
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