W.B.YEATS Poet, author AND dramatist BY PETER FEGAN.
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W.B.YEATSPoet, author AND
dramatist
BY PETER FEGAN
birth & family William butler yeats was born in 13 june1865 Sandymount Dublin Yeats’ brother, jack became a painter
and his sisters Elizabeth and Susan Mary were involved with arts and crafts movement
His father was john butler yeats and his mother was called susan mary pollexfen childhood
childhood Yeats and his family moved to londan to
further his fathers art career First yeats was taught at home but in
1877 he attended goldfin school which he attended for four years
For financial reasons they moved back to Dublin in 1880
poetry yeats first poems were published in 1885 by Dublin university review The family returned to London in 1887.
yeats and ernst rhys created the rhymers’ club in 1880
Yeatst wrote lots of work manly about Irish legends
Theatre in 1889 yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward
Martyn and George Moore founded the Irish literary theatre for celtic and Irish plays
Then in 19o4 he founded The abbey theatre Yeats wrote his first playWhen he was 17
lovers In 1889 yeats met Maud Gonne He asked her to marry him several times but she always said no He wrote a lot of his poems about her But in 1917 he married Georgie Hyde Lees They had two children
Life and death Yeats was awarded the nobel prize in
literature in 1923 Yeats died in 1939 He was buried in Sligo
1865-1939