Yeats' Biography

                                                                        W.B YEATS BIOGRAPHY

KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER:

1.     Yeats 1865-1939…………..74 Years

2.     Born in Dublin in An irish Protestant Family

3.     Grandfather was a clergyman

4.     Father, John Butler Yeats,  first Lawyer and later as Pre-Raphaliante painter

5.     Mother, Susan Pollexfen, a wealth woman having ships and business

6.     Early Life in London and Slingo, a coastal area near Ireland

7.     In 1881, family moved to Dublin.

8.     Met George Russell at metropolitan School of art.

9.     In 1886, formed the Dublin Lodge of Hermetic society, later Aleister Crowley.

10.Rhymers Club with Ernest Rhys

11.Visited his grandfather often at Liverpool

12.“Reveries over Childhood and Youth

13.Mention England three times in his poetry.

14.In 1861 to 1911, England’s population increased 125 percent.

15.Attended Contemporary Club in Grafton street near college.

16.Published “The Dublin University Review in 1885.

17.In 1889, met Maud Gonne (1866-1953) an actress.

18.She married Major John MacBride

19.In 1889, police report described him as revolutionary.

20.Maud Gonne played role in “Cathleen in Houlihan” in 1902.”

21.Yeats proposed “Iseult Gonne”, the 22 years old, daughter of Maud Gonne.

22.Iseult was molested by her father and later worked as gunrunner for Irish Army.

23.At fifteen, she proposed Yeats.

24.Later Yeats proposed her but was rejected.

25.In September 1902, George Hyde-Lees, 24 years old and married on Oct, 20,1902.

26.Two children, Anne and Micheal.

27.Wrote a vision in 1925.

28.Received Nobel Prize in 1923.

29.The Wanderings of Oisin in 1889.

30.In 1896, returned home.

31.Reformed Irish society and national Library.

32.Met Lady Gregory in 1894.

33.Relationship started in 1897 and founded Irish literary Theatre and later Irish national Theatre society.

34.It moved in 1904 to New Abbey Theatre.

35.Worked as director of theatre.

36.John Synge, friend wrote The Playboy of the Western World 19047.

37.In 1932, founded the Irish academy of letters.

38.In 1993-34 involved with Blueshirts in Dublin.

39.In 1936, published The book of verse.

40.New poems 1938.

41.In 1939, Died at The Hotel Ideal Sejour in Menton France.

42.Coffin was taken in 1948, to Druncliff in Sligo.

43.Poetry reminds us Spenser and Shelley

44.In favour of Art for Art’s sake

45.Literature is always personal

46.W.H Auden defined poetry as Memorable speech

WORKS

47. Land of Heart’s Desire 1894.

48.Where there is nothing 1902.

49.Collected plays 1952.

POEMS

50.Mosada, 1880

51.Collected poems 1933.