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Yeats, William Butler
(1865-1939) Irish writer. Yeats created a number of plays and poems, including: "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889); "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1893); "The Celtic Twilight" (1893); "The Secret Rose" (1897); "The Wing Among the Reeds" (1899); "The Shadowy Waters" (1900); and much more.
Books About William Butler Yeats
He was one of Ireland's greatest poets. Yeats once said, "Out of the quarrel with others, we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves poetry." When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, he was recognized "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."
Easter 1916
Read "Easter 1916," by William Butler Yeats.
Ephemera
Read "Ephemera," by William Butler Yeats.
Memory
Read "Memory," by William Butler Yeats.
The Centre Cannot Hold... The words of William Butler Yeats
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold..." These and the other lines are part of a poem by William Butler Yeats. It's called "The Second Coming" and it was published in 1921.
Towards Break of Day
Read "Towards Break of Day," by William Butler Yeats.
Vacillation
Read "Vacillation," by William Butler Yeats.
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats is a famous Irish writer, part of the Irish Renaissance. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), British Writer.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to Protestant parents. His father, J.B. Yeats, and his brother, Jack Yeats, were both well-known artists. Although W.B. Yeats studied at the School of Art in Dublin for three years, he abandoned art in favor of
Wisdom
Read "Wisdom," by William Butler Yeats.
Words
Read "Words," by William Butler Yeats.
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats
Maddox's discussion of Yeats's life, loves, passions, works, and indiscretions is direct and astonishing. She doesn't focus on his works: the poetry, plays and pamphlets that filled out his literary career.