Benjamin Yeats, Jervis's grandson and William's great-great-grandfather, had in 1773 married Mary Butler of a landed family in County Kildare.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
These developments had a profound effect on his poetry, and his subsequent explorations of Irish identity had a significant influence on the creation of his country's biography. In 1867, the family moved to England to aid their father, John, to further his career as an artist.
On 26 January 1877, the young poet entered the Godolphin School, which he attended for four years.
In 1879 the family moved to Bedford Park taking a two-year lease on 8 Woodstock Road.
The 1880s saw the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the [rule] movement; the 1890s saw the momentum of nationalism, while the Irish Catholics became prominent around the turn of the century.
For financial reasons, the family returned to Dublin toward the end of 1880, living at first in the suburbs of Harold's Cross and later Howth.
In October 1881, Yeats resumed his education at Dublin's Erasmus Smith High School.
Between 1884 and 1886, William attended the Metropolitan School of Art—now the National College of Art and Design—in Thomas Street.
During this period he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, the Dublin University Review published Yeats's first poems, as well as an essay entitled "The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson".
The covers of these volumes were illustrated by Yeats's friend Althea Gyles. During 1885, Yeats was involved in the formation of the Dublin Hermetic Order.
Between 1884 and 1886, William attended the Metropolitan School of Art—now the National College of Art and Design—in Thomas Street.
The theory of masks, developed by Wilde in his polemic The Decay of Lying can clearly be seen in Yeats's play The Player Queen, while the more sensual characterisation of Salomé, in Wilde's play of the same name, provides the template for the changes Yeats made in his later plays, especially in On Baile's Strand (1904), Deirdre (1907), and his dance play The King of the Great Clock Tower (1934). === Young poet === The family returned to London in 1887.
In March 1888 the family moved to 3 Blenheim Road in Bedford Park where they would remain until 1902.
The rent on the house in 1888 was £50 a year. He began writing his first works when he was seventeen; these included a poem—heavily influenced by Percy Bysshe Shelley—that describes a magician who set up a throne in central Asia.
His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The 1880s saw the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the [rule] movement; the 1890s saw the momentum of nationalism, while the Irish Catholics became prominent around the turn of the century.
In March 1890 Yeats joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and with Ernest Rhys co-founded the Rhymers' Club, a group of London-based poets who met regularly in a Fleet Street tavern to recite their verse.
In 1891, Yeats published John Sherman and "Dhoya", one a novella, the other a story.
Yeats later sought to mythologize the collective, calling it the "Tragic Generation" in his autobiography, and published two anthologies of the Rhymers' work, the first one in 1892 and the second one in 1894.
As early as 1892, he wrote: "If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen ever have come to exist.
Yeats later sought to mythologize the collective, calling it the "Tragic Generation" in his autobiography, and published two anthologies of the Rhymers' work, the first one in 1892 and the second one in 1894.
From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic.
In March 1888 the family moved to 3 Blenheim Road in Bedford Park where they would remain until 1902.
He read extensively on the subjects throughout his life, became a member of the paranormal research organisation "The Ghost Club" (in 1911) and was especially influenced by the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.
In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. == Biography == === Early years === William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
In 1997, his biographer R.
Quinx Books published the poem in complete form for the first time in 2014.
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