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W.B. YEATS

W.B. YEATS. By JAmes Maguire RANG LÁN GAEILGE. William Butler Yeats. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was a highly regarded poet, playwright, politician, and Irish Nationalist. He was born near here, in Sandymount , died in France and is buried in Sligo. Career.

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W.B. YEATS

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  1. W.B. YEATS By JAmes Maguire RANG LÁN GAEILGE

  2. William Butler Yeats • William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was a highly regarded poet, playwright, politician, and Irish Nationalist. • He was born near here, in Sandymount, died in France and is buried in Sligo.

  3. Career • Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. • He served as an Irish Senator for two terms. • In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."

  4. Maud Gonne • In 1889, Yeats met Maud Gonne, then a 23-year-old English heiress and ardent Irish Nationalist. • Yeats developed a liking to her beauty and outspoken manner, and she had a significant and lasting effect on his poetry and his life.

  5. Abbey Theatre • In 1899, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and George Moore established the Irish Literary Theatre for the purpose of performing Irish and Celtic 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.

  6. Death • He died at the HôtelIdéalSéjour, in Menton, France, on 28 January 1939. • In September 1948, Yeats' body was moved to Drumcliff, County Sligo. • His epitaph is taken from the last lines of "Under Ben Bulben", one of his final poems: Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death.Horseman, pass by!

  7. The End

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