"in boyhood when with rod and fly, Or the humbler worm, I climbed Ben Bulben's back And had the livelong summer day to spend. It seems that I must bid the Muse go pack, Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend Until imagination, ear and eye, Can be content with argument and deal In abstract things; or be derided by A sort of battered kettle at the heel. W. B. Yeats </poem> The Tower (poem) ""The Tower"" is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It is a passionate indictment of a man wrestling with age. It is"
"as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irishman so honoured. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize: these works include ""The Tower"" (1928) and ""The Winding Stair and Other Poems"" (1929). In addition to W. B. Yeats other important early modernist poets were the American poets T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) and Ezra Pound (1885–1972). Eliot became a British citizen in 1927 but was born and"
"by W. B. Yeats for the local translation of ancient Irish manuscripts. He did not seek re-election in 1934. He lived at Burton Hall, Stillorgan, for many years. In March 1923, during the Irish Civil War, the anti-Treaty republicans tried to burn it down, albeit without success. He married Mary Bainbridge in 1900 and they had 4 children, including Olympic medalist fencer Judy Guinness. His father, also named Henry (1829–93), had been the Dublin manager of the Guinness Mahon bank, and a son of its founder, Robert Rundell Guinness. Henry Guinness was also the first to write a number of"
"influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and made use of Irish ""peasant folk traditions and ancient Celtic myth"" in his early poetry. Subsequently, however, he was drawn to the ""intellectually more vigorous"" poetry of John Donne, along with Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and became one of the greatest 20th-century modernist poets. Though Yeats was an Anglo-Irish Protestant he was deeply affected by the Easter Rising of 1916 and supported the independence of Ireland. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 and was a member of the Irish Senate from 1922–28. A group of early 20th-century Irish poets worth"
"Stars"", which he submits to the Abbey Theatre (which had already rejected another of his plays, ""The Shadow of a Gunman""), and is surprised when W. B. Yeats, the founder of the Abbey, accepts and produces his new play. The opening of the play causes the audience to riot, and he loses many friends; but he is undeterred and is soon acclaimed as Ireland's outstanding young playwright. As early as 1907, performances of John Millington Synge's ""The Playboy of the Western World"" resulted in riots by theatergoers, which had to be quelled by police. The real W. B Yeats, a"
"establish independence for Ireland. Wishing to show restraint from publishing political poems during the height of the war, Yeats withheld publication of the poem until after the conflict had ended. ""The Second Coming"" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, in the aftermath of the First World War and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence that followed the Easter Rising, at a time before the British Government decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming allegorically to describe the atmosphere"
"responsible for the establishment of the literary movement known as the Celtic Revival. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. Apart from Yeats, much of the impetus for the Celtic Revival came from the work of scholarly translators who were aiding in the discovery of both the ancient sagas and Ossianic poetry and the more recent folk song tradition in Irish. One of the most significant of these was Douglas Hyde, later the first President of Ireland, whose ""Love Songs of Connacht"" was widely admired. In the 1910s, Yeats became acquainted with the work of James Joyce, and"
"(1902), and ""Gods and Fighting Men"" (1904). In the preface of the later he wrote: ""One must not expect in these stories the epic lineaments, the many incidents, woven into one great event of, let us say the War for the Brown Bull of Cuailgne, or that of the last gathering at Muirthemne."" Yeats was an Irish Nationalist, who sought a kind of traditional lifestyle articulated through poems such as 'The Fisherman'. However, as his life progressed, he sheltered much of his revolutionary spirit and distanced himself from the intense political landscape until 1922, when he was appointed Senator for"
"poet, and the poet is Jack'. He was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916. He died in Dublin in 1957, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the Olympic Games in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting ""The Liffey Swim"" won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games. In the competition records the painting is simply entitled ""Swimming"". In November 2010, one of Yeats's works, ""A Horseman Enters a"
"born""), Yeats faces his own failure to recognise the merits of the leaders of the Easter Rising, due to his attitude towards their ordinary backgrounds and lives. Yeats was close to Lady Gregory and her home place of Coole Park, Co, Galway. He would often visit and stay there as it was a central meeting place for people who supported the resurgence of Irish literature and cultural traditions. His poem, ""The Wild Swans at Coole"" was written there, between 1916 and 1917. He wrote prefaces for two books of Irish mythological tales, compiled by Augusta, Lady Gregory: ""Cuchulain of Muirthemne"""
"that ""W.B."", the initials to which Yeats' first and middle names are often shortened, could also stand for ""Waterboys"". The Waterboys returned to W.B. Yeats in March 2010. Having arranged 20 of his poems to music, the band performed them as ""An Appointment With Mr Yeats"" for five nights at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (which Yeats co-founded in 1904). Scott has also a number of poetic tropes in lyrics, including anthropomorphism (e.g. ""Islandman""), metaphor (e.g. ""A Church Not Made with Hands"", ""The Whole of the Moon""), and metonymy (e.g. ""Old England""). The latter song quotes from both Yeats and James"
"Jack Butler Yeats John Butler Yeats (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother. Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland—especially of his boyhood home of Sligo. Yeats's work contains elements of Romanticism. Yeats was born in London, England. He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and the brother of W. B. Yeats, who received the"
"of Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W.B. Yeats. She was responsible for the restoration of Thoor Ballylee (with the aid of Bord Fáilte and the Yeats family). At the time, the Office of Public Works was owner of the property. Hanley persuaded the poet Padraic Colum to open the castle on Sunday 20 June 1965, the centenary of Yeats’s birth, as ""Yeats Tower"" to appear as it was when he lived there and refitted as a Yeats museum containing a collection of first editions and items of furniture. The adjoining miller's cottage became a tea room and shop. This was"
"the Irish language, though there is not much evidence that he laboured to learn it. He developed a particular fondness for W. B. Yeats, in part because of Yeats's use of Ireland's Celtic heritage in poetry. In a letter to a friend, Lewis wrote, ""I have here discovered an author exactly after my own heart, whom I am sure you would delight in, W. B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty about our old Irish mythology."" In 1921, Lewis met Yeats twice, since Yeats had moved to Oxford. Lewis was surprised to find his English"
"of his country's biography. In 1867, the family moved to England to aid their father, John, to further his career as an artist. At first the Yeats children were educated at home. Their mother entertained them with stories and Irish folktales. John provided an erratic education in geography and chemistry, and took William on natural history explorations of the nearby Slough countryside. On 26 January 1877, the young poet entered the Godolphin school, which he attended for four years. He did not distinguish himself academically, and an early school report describes his performance as ""only fair. Perhaps better in Latin"
"ancient sagas and Ossianic poetry and the more recent folk song tradition in Irish. One of the most significant of these was Douglas Hyde, later the first President of Ireland, whose ""Love Songs of Connacht"" was widely admired. In 1899, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and George Moore began the Irish Literary Theatre to present Irish plays. The ideals of the Abbey were derived from the avant-garde French theatre, which sought to express the ""ascendancy of the playwright rather than the actor-manager ""à l'anglais""."" The group's manifesto, which Yeats wrote, declared, ""We hope to find in Ireland an uncorrupted &"
"their intention of establishing a national theatre for Ireland. The Irish Literary Theatre was founded by Yeats, Lady Gregory and Martyn in 1899, with assistance from George Moore. It proposed to give performances in Dublin of Irish plays by Irish authors. The Fay brothers formed W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company, focused on the development of Irish acting talent. The company produced works by Seumas O'Cuisin, Fred Ryan and Yeats. Around the turn of the century Patrick S. Dinneen published editions of Geoffrey Keating's ""Foras Feasa ar Éirinn"", poems by Aogán Ó Rathaille and Piaras Feiritéar, and other works"
"there in 1967. Mary Devenport O'Neill Mary Devenport O'Neill (3 August 1879 – 1967) was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell,and Austin Clarke. Mary Devenport O'Neill was born Mary Devenport on 3 August 1879 in Barrack Street, Loughrea, County Galway. She was the daughter of RIC sub-constable, John Devenport, and his wife Bridget (née Burke). She attended the Dominican convent , Eccles Street, Dublin before enrolling in the Metropolitan School of Art from 1898 to 1903. In 1900 she won the year's prize in the School of Art. She appears"
"Æ, Yeats and his artist brother Jack, George Moore, Seán O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Katharine Tynan and Violet Martin. Yeats wrote five poems about, or set in, the house and grounds: ""The Wild Swans at Coole"", ""I walked among the seven woods of Coole"", ""In the Seven Woods"", ""Coole Park, 1929"" and ""Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931"". Lady Gregory, whom Shaw once described as ""the greatest living Irishwoman"", died at home aged 80 from breast cancer, and is buried in the New Cemetery in Bohermore, County Galway. The entire contents of Coole Park were auctioned three months after her death,"
"to secretly cover the cost of repatriation from his slush fund. Authorities were worried about the fact that the much-loved poet's remains were thrown into a communal grave, causing embarrassment for both Ireland and France. ""Mr Rebouillat, (a) forensic doctor in Roquebrune would be able to reconstitute a skeleton presenting all the characteristics of the deceased."" per a letter from Ostroróg to his superiors. Yeats is generally considered one of the twentieth century key English language poets. He was a Symbolist poet, using allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. He chose words and assembled them so that, in"
"and Síle (a broadcaster with RTÉ who also died in 2007), and a son, Pádraig (an engineer). Michael Yeats Michael Butler Yeats (22 August 1921 – 3 January 2007) was an Irish barrister and Fianna Fáil politician. He served two periods as a member of Seanad Éireann. His 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, as was his uncle Jack Butler Yeats. Michael was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was an officer in the College Historical Society. He"
"Althea Gyles Althea Gyles (1868 – 23 January 1949) was an Irish poet and artist. She is known for her book cover designs for writers such as W. B. Yeats. Margaret Alethea Gyles was born in 1868 at her family home, Kilmurry, County Waterford. George Gyles, her father, was from a prominent Anglo-Irish family, and according to W. B. Yeats were ""so haughty that their neighbours called them the Royal Family."" Her mother, Alithea Emma Gyles, was the daughter of the Bishop of Hereford, Edward Grey. The family moved to Dublin in 1889. Gyles severed ties with her family, and"
"Ó Cadhain’s ""Cré na Cille"" and the poetry of Seán Ó Ríordáin and Máire Mhac an tSaoi. Other authors included Niall Ó Dónaill, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Donncha Ó Céileachair, Liam Ó Flaithearta, Seán Ó Lúing, Leon Ó Broin and Annraoi Ó Liatháin. Anne Yeats (1919-2001), daughter of poet W. B. Yeats, designed many of the covers for the company's books over a twenty-year period from 1958. Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh died at his place of work in the company on 14 June 1967. His wife Bríd took over leadership of the business, and published another fifty books. The company was renamed"
"Michael Yeats Michael Butler Yeats (22 August 1921 – 3 January 2007) was an Irish barrister and Fianna Fáil politician. He served two periods as a member of Seanad Éireann. His 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, as was his uncle Jack Butler Yeats. Michael was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was an officer in the College Historical Society. He unsuccessfully stood for election to Dáil Éireann at the 1948 general election and the 1951 general election"
"The Winding Stair and Other Poems The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933. It was the next new volume after 1928's ""The Tower"". (The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, which is exceedingly rare.) The title refers to the staircase in the Thoor Ballylee castle which Yeats had purchased and lived in with his family for some time. Yeats saw the castle as a vital connection to the aristocratic Irish past which he admired. The phrase ""winding stair"" is used in"
"of W B Yeats. This was followed by other work, which includes ""A History of Verse Translation from the Irish: 1789–1897"" (1988, Colin Smythe Ltd), ""Changing States: Transformations in Modern Irish Writing"" (1993, Routledge). His history of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, was published in 1999 to mark the centenary of the first productions of what became the Irish National Theatre. This was titled ""A History of the Abbey Theatre 1899–1999: Form and Pressure"" (1999, Oxford University Press). He edited for Penguin Books ""W B Yeats: Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend, and Myth"" (1993). ""The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature"" appeared"
"noting are those associated with the Easter Rising of 1916. Three of the Republican leadership, Patrick Pearse (1879–1916), Joseph Mary Plunkett (1879–1916) and Thomas MacDonagh (1878–1916), were noted poets. However, it was to be Yeats' earlier Celtic mode that was to be most influential. Amongst the most prominent followers of the early Yeats were Padraic Colum (1881–1972), F. R. Higgins (1896–1941), and Austin Clarke (1896–1974). However Irish poetic Modernism took its lead not from Yeats but from Joyce and the 1930s saw the emergence of a generation of writers who engaged in experimental writing as a matter of course. The"
"was known as the Irish Literary Revival, where Æ met the young James Joyce in 1902 and introduced him to other Irish literary figures, including William Butler Yeats. He appears as a character in the ""Scylla and Charybdis"" episode of Joyce's ""Ulysses"", where he dismisses Stephen's theories on Shakespeare. Dedalus borrows money from him and then remarks: ""A.E.I.O.U."" His collected poems was published in 1913, with a second edition in 1926. His house at 17 Rathgar Avenue in Dublin became a meeting-place at the time for everyone interested in the economic and artistic future of Ireland: his Sunday evenings ""at"
"Easter, 1916 Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The uprising was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed for treason. The poem was written between May and September 1916, but first published in 1921 in the collection ""Michael Robartes and the Dancer"". Even though a committed nationalist, Yeats usually rejected violence as a means to secure Irish independence, and as a result had strained relations with some of the"
"Dresden, where he saw the original production of Strauss's ""Salome"", and first heard the music of Mahler, which he found ""eccentric, long-winded, muddle-headed, and yet always interesting"". Among the influences on the young Bax was the Irish poet W. B. Yeats; Bax's brother Clifford introduced him to Yeats's poetry and to Ireland. Influenced by Yeats's ""The Wanderings of Oisin"", Bax visited the west coast of Ireland in 1902, and found that ""in a moment the Celt within me stood revealed"". His first composition to be performed – at an Academy concert in 1902 – was an Irish dialect song called"
"not write poetry during this period. He regained many of his language skills after intensive therapy and traveling to Britain for treatment. A long-time admirer of the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, Meredith fulfilled a long-time ambition of visiting Yeats's spiritual homeplace of Sligo, Ireland, in the summer of 2006. While there he also attended the Yeats International Summer School, which attracts many academics and admirers of Yeats to Sligo every summer. Meredith died in New London, Connecticut, near his home in Montville, where he lived with his partner of 36 years, the poet and fiction writer Richard Harteis. A"
"Higgins as untrustworthy and a troublemaker, and describes him unflatteringly in his memoir ""My Father's Son"". For Yeats Higgins seems to have felt a genuine affection, once remarking that he never left Yeats' house without ""feeling like a thousand dollars"". He was also capable of great kindness and generosity to younger writers like Patrick Kavanagh. His five collections of poems are: F. R. Higgins Frederick Robert Higgins (24 April 1896 – 6 January 1941) was an Irish poet and theatre director. Higgins was born on the west coast of Ireland in Foxford, which is located in County Mayo. He was"
"the 19th century was French Symbolism. This movement inevitably influenced Irish writers, not least Oscar Wilde (1845–1900). Although Wilde is best known for his plays, fiction, and ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"", he also wrote poetry in a symbolist vein and was the first Irish writer to experiment with prose poetry. However, the overtly cosmopolitan Wilde was not to have much influence on the future course of Irish writing. W. B. Yeats was much more influential in the long run. Yeats, too, was influenced by his French contemporaries but consciously focused on an identifiably Irish content. As such, he was"