William butler yeats biography timeline project

Nikki Giovanni. A Huge Shakespeare Mystery, Solved. How Did Shakespeare Die? William Shakespeare. Christine de Pisan. Amanda Gorman. Acclaimed Poet and Playwright In addition to his poetry, Yeats devoted significant energy to writing plays. Watch Next. GY has miscarriage August. Guerrilla war intensifies in Ireland Autumn. Michael Robartes and the Dancer Feb.

Truce established in Ireland July. Yeatses live variously in Oxfordshire. A son Michael born to the Yeatses at Thame in Oxfordshire. August Four Plays for Dancers Oct. Four Years Dec. Yeats dies in New York Feb. The Trembling of the Veil Oct. Civil War ends April. Plays and Controversies Nov. Gives Nobel Prize acceptance speech at Stockholm Dec.

First version of A Vision Jan. Werner Laurie. Autobiographies , a collection of earlier autobiographical writings. WBY suffers from lung-congestion and travels for his health Nov. Yeatses visit Algeciras , Seville , and Cannes Winter. The Tower Feb. WBY resigns from Seanad Sept. The Winding Stair Oct. Yeats's later work found new imaginative inspiration in the mystical system he began to work out for himself under the influence of spiritualism.

In many ways, this poetry is a return to the vision of his earlier work. The opposition between the worldly-minded man of the sword and the spiritually minded man of God, the theme of The Wanderings of Oisin , is reproduced in A Dialogue Between Self and Soul. Some critics hold that Yeats spanned the transition from the 19th century into 20th-century modernism in poetry much as Pablo Picasso did in painting; others question whether late Yeats has much in common with modernists of the Ezra Pound and T.

Eliot variety. Modernists read the well-known poem " The Second Coming " as a dirge for the decline of European civilisation, but it also expresses Yeats's apocalyptic mystical theories and is shaped by the s. His most important collections of poetry started with The Green Helmet and Responsibilities In imagery, Yeats's poetry became sparer and more powerful as he grew older.

The Tower , The Winding Stair , and New Poems contained some of the most potent images in 20th-century poetry. Yeats's mystical inclinations, informed by Hinduism, theosophical beliefs and the occult , provided much of the basis of his late poetry, [ ] which some critics have judged as lacking in intellectual credibility. The metaphysics of Yeats's late works must be read in relation to his system of esoteric fundamentals in A Vision Yeats is commemorated in Sligo town by a statue, sculpted by Rowan Gillespie in On the 50th anniversary of the poet's death, it was erected outside the Ulster Bank.

Critic Stephen Eddins described it as "sumptuously lyrical and magically wild, and [ There is a blue plaque dedicated to Yeats at Balscadden House on the Balscadden Road in Howth ; his cottage home from to Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.

William butler yeats biography timeline project

In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Wikisource Wikidata item. Irish poet and playwright — For other uses, see Yeats disambiguation. Early years [ edit ]. Young poet [ edit ]. Mysticism and occult [ edit ]. Early poems [ edit ]. Rhymers' Club [ edit ]. Maud Gonne [ edit ]. Main article: Maud Gonne. Abbey Theatre [ edit ]. Main article: Abbey Theatre.

Politics [ edit ]. Marriage to Georgie Hyde-Lees [ edit ]. Main article: Georgie Hyde-Lees. Nobel Prize [ edit ]. Main article: Nobel Prize in Literature. Old age [ edit ]. Death [ edit ]. Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by! Style [ edit ]. Legacy [ edit ]. Notes [ edit ]. Foster notes how Gonne was "notoriously unreliable on dates and places , p.

References [ edit ]. The New York Times , 30 January Retrieved on 21 May Yeats, Man and Poet. Palgrave Macmillan, Syracuse University Press. ISBN Archived from the original on 26 January Retrieved 2 May Gowran, its connection with the Butler Family". Archived from the original on 26 February Retrieved 11 May Archived from the original on 25 July Yeats, Autobiographies , p.

London: Macmillan. Journal of Design History , Vol. The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 27 March Retrieved on 3 June Columbia University , 7 October Retrieved on 15 July Auden" Archived 10 June at the Wayback Machine. The Complete Works of W. Auden: Prose, Vol. II, — , Retrieved on 26 May English Literary History , Vol.

Yeats' A Vision ". Irish Studies Review , Vol. The Journal of American Folklore , Vol. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 1 August Subscription or UK public library membership required. Nineteenth-Century Literature , Vol. Department of English, University of Toronto, Archived from the original on 26 September Retrieved 27 May Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics , BBC Four.

Archived from the original on 5 February Retrieved 20 June He returned in ,, and Yeats married a friend he met in , George Hyde Lees. They had two children, one boy and one girl. Aug 9, Yeats was appionted elected to the first Irish senate. He was reelected in