![]() There William attended Erasmus Smith High School and spent much time at his father’s nearby art studio. There William attended the Godolphin School in Hammersmith before the family moved back to Dublin. At the age of two young William’s father decided to move the family to London, England to study art. His younger brother Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) like his father would also become an accomplished artist. Yeat’s mother Susan was the first to introduce him and his two sisters Susan Mary (Lily) (1866-1949) and Elizabeth Corbet (Lolly) (1868-1940) to the Irish folktales he would grow to love so much. In 1907 he moved to New York City where he died in 1922. When they married he was studying to become a lawyer, but soon gave that up to follow his dreams of becoming an artist, of which he became a well known portrait painter. Susan’s father’s political loyalties, that Ireland should remain under the British crown, were in direct opposition to her husband’s John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) who was sympathetic to the Nationalists and Home Rulers. His mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen (1841-1900) was the daughter of a wealthy family from County Sligo. William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in the seaside village of Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland. Yeats spent most of his life between Sligo, Dublin, and London, but his profound influence to future poets and playwrights and theatre, music and film can be seen the world over. We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry-“Anima Hominis,” Essays (1924). While his works explore the greater themes of life in contrast to art, and finding beauty in the mundane, he also produced many works of an intimate quality especially in his later years as father and aging man of letters. His early dramatic works convey his respect for Irish legend and fascination with the occult, while his later plays take on a more poetical and experimental aspect: Japanese Noh plays and modernism being major influences. A devoted patriot, Yeats found his voice to speak out against the harsh Nationalist policies of the time. At a young age he was reading Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, John Donne and the works of William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley, recommended by his father and inspiration for his own creativity, but fellow Irish poets Standish James O’Grady (1846-1928) and Sir William Ferguson (1818-1886) were perhaps the most influential. He never fully embraced his Protestant past nor joined the majority of Ireland’s Roman Catholics but he devoted much of his life to study in myriad other subjects including theosophy, mysticism, spiritualism, and the Kabbalah. Synge (1871-1909), Sean O’Casey (1880-1964), and Padraig (Padraic) Colum (1881-1972) Yeats’ works draw heavily on Irish mythology and history. 1, “A Teller of Tales”Īs one of the founders of the Irish Literary Revival, along with J. ![]() Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.-ch. Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination.Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. ![]() ![]() He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer himself. He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist, author and poet wrote The Celtic Twilight (1893) Paddy Flynn is dead. ![]()
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