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Biography

Youth

When Yeats was two years old, its family moved initially Sandymount, Comté of Dublin, with the Comté Sligo, then with London to allow her John father to continue her career of artist. The Yeats children were educated at the house. Their mother, nostalgic of Sligo, told them stories and tales of their county of origin.

In 1877, it enters in Godolphin School for four years and does not shine there particularly. It is there that its Irish nationalism wakes up. For financial reasons, the family turns over to Dublin towards the end of the Années 1880, initially in the center of the city then in the suburbs of Howth.

In October 1881, Yeats finishes integrates the Erasmus Smith High School of Dublin. The workshop of his/her father is located not far and it passes most of its time to attend many artists and writers of the city. It remains in this school until December 1883.

It is for this period that it starts to write poems and in 1885, its first poems, as well as a test titrated the poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson , are published in the Dublin University Review . Of 1884 with 1886, it off studies with the Metropolitan School Art (currently the National College off Art and Design).

The young poet

Already before writing poetry, Yeats associated this one with religious ideas.

The poetry of Yeats at this period is largely impregnated of Mythes and Folklore Irish but also of the diction of the worms Pre-raphaélites. It is Percy Bysshe Shelley which then exerts on him the greatest influence and that will remain thus throughout its life.

Maud Gonne, the Revival of the Irish literature and Abbey Theater

In 1889, Yeats meets Maud Gonne, a young heiress who then started to devote herself to the Irish nationalist movement. Maud Gonne liked the poem of Yeats The Isle off Statues .

Two years later, Yeats proposes a common life to him, but she refuses. And thus three times thereafter in 1899, 1900 and 1901. She finally marries in 1903 the catholic nationalist John MacBride. This same Yeats year remains some time in America and meets Olivia Shakespear E there.

In the same way in 1896, it is presented to Lady Gregory by their mutual friend Edward Martyn. Lady Gregory encourages the nationalism of Yeats and persuades it to continue to write plays. Although influenced by the Symbolism French, Yeats concentrates on texts of Irish inspiration; this leaning is reinforced by the emergence of a new generation of Irish authors.

With Gregory Lady, Martyn and other writers among whom J Mr. Synge, Seán O' Casey, and Padraic Colum, Yeats founds the known literary movement under the name of Irish Literary Revival (or Celtic Revival ).

This group acquires a property in Dublin where they open the Abbey Theater the December 27th 1904. The part of Yeats Cathleen Nor Houlihan and that of Gregory Lady, Spreading the News , is given at the time of the evening of opening. Yeats will continue to deal with this theater until its death, at the same time like member of the steering committee and playwright.

Contemporary of Wilde, it oscillates a long time between London declining of the end of the 19th century and Ireland in full independence boiling. Its first poetries are characterized by a marked use of taken again symbols of various traditions (Irish, cabal, Catholicism, Greek and Roman). Later, it concentrates more on reality.

William Butler Yeats receives the Nobel Prize of literature in 1923. The Nobel Committee then qualifies his work of “poetry always inspired, whose highly artistic form expresses the spirit of a whole nation. ”

Works

Wanderings of Oisin , 1889
Meru , 1935
the countess Catherine , 1892
Celtic Twilight , 1893
country of the desire of the heart , 1894
Poems , 1895
wind in the reeds , 1899
Of the shades on water , 1900
Catherine in Houlihan , 1902
Deirdre , 1907
green Heaume , 1910
resongées Childhood and youth , 1915 (autobiographical test)
Wild swans at Coole , 1917
With the well of the sparrowhawk , 1917
Four Parts for dancers , 1921
the Quivering of the veil , 1922 (autobiographical test)
a vision , 1925
Autobiography , 1927
the tower , 1928
the Staircase in spiral , 1933
full moon in March , 1935
Dramatis personae , 1936
Last Poems , 1939

Quotations

“ Of our quarrels with the others we make rhetoric. Our quarrels with us same, of poetry . ”
“ I am poor, and my dreams are my only goods. I unroll them under your steps. Go gently, because you steps on my dreams… ”
“ In imagination, there is a revelation of Ego with itself. ” ( the Torch of the vision )
“ I saw much more men ruined by the desire to have a woman and children that by alcohol and the vice. ”

Sources and bonds

universal Bibliography
astronomy and poetry
Biography and bibliography
New exposure on the life of W B Yeats in the National library of Ireland
the theater of Yeats, its life and its work
Meru
European Authors of the first 20th century, funny of peace to funny of war , under the direction of Jean-Claude Polet, ISBN 2804135802

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