William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on the 13th of June 1865, the son of John Butler Yeats, barrister turned portrait painter, and Susan Pollexfen, daughter of a wealthy (mills and shipping) Sligo family. Yeats's early years were spent between Dublin, London, and Sligo, attending schools in London and Dublin before entering the Metropolitan School of Art.
Yeats's international reputation as a poet was assured from the 1920s, and in 1923 he was awarded the Nobel prize. The Irish state had already rewarded him with a seat in the Senate in 1922.
Yeats died on the 28th of January, 1939, in Roquebrune, France. He was buried there and, in 1948, his remains were brought back to Ireland to rest, as he had wished, "under bare Ben Bulben's head in Drumcliff churchyard".
In this beautifully designed and produced gift book, we get a selection of about sixty of Yeats's best loved poems complemented by the paintings from Irish artists, usually artists who were contemporaries of the poet.
Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prize-winner, dramatist and, above all, poet, W.B. Yeats began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. For anyone interested in the literature of the twentieth century, Yeats's poetry demands to be read and what is more, to be read as a whole.
Audio CD of the Life of William Butler Yeats is a remarkable one – poet, playwright, essayist, politician, occultist, astrologer, founder of a national theatre, voluminous correspondent, lover, husband and father. It was a life that extended to a packed, sometimes frantic seventy-three years and left us with what many consider to be one of the finest collections of poetry from one voice
This collection traces the course of Yeats' artistic development from youthful romantic idealism, to middle-age disillusionment. The change in his poetry is to a more direct, austere, forceful style. Many of the poems are evocative and paint moving portraits of people and places.
In his authoritative biography of Yeats, Roy Foster brings new light to Yeat's Bohemian early life of uncertain finances, love affairs, avant-garde friends, and experiments with drugs and occultism, to illuminate one of the most complex and fascinating lives of modern times.
Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets – represented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CD – with W. B. Yeats, one of the most loved poets of the twentieth century. He left a large legacy of outstanding poems, and the finest are collected here: Down by the Salley Gardens, The Lake Isle of Inisfree, The Secret Rose and He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. They are read by a strong cast led by Olivier award winner Jim Norton.
Signed by the Author, Kevin Connolly. This unique book brings the reader on an illustrated journey of the biographical, geographical and literary references to the city and county of Sligo and the surrounding area made during the lifetime and in the works of William Butler Yeats.Though Yeats was born in Sandymount in Dublin in 1865 and spent little of his adult life in the environs of Sligo the poet himself maintained that Sligo was the domain of his childhood and the landscape of his poetic imagination for much of his life.
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