william butler yeats by brad h.

1. William Butler YeatsBy Brad H. William was born in Dublin Ireland in June 1865 Mr. Yeats died in France in January 1939

3. Education Godolphin Elementry School in Hammersmith, London Erasmus Smith High School, Dublin, Ireland Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, Ireland

4. List of Poems Aedh Wishes For The Clothes Of HeavenAgainst Unworthy PraiseBaile And AillinnBroken DreamsEaster, 1916He Wishes For The Cloths Of HeavenHer PraiseIn the Seven WoodsKing And No KingLapis LazuliLeda And The SwanNo Second TroyO Do Not Love Too LongPoliticsSailing to ByzantiumSwift's EpitaphThe ArrowThe Black TowerThe Crucifixion Of The OutcastThe DollsThe Everlasting VoicesThe FishThe Harp of Aengus

5. Chronology of William Yeats 1865 (June) W. B. Yeats born in Sandymount Ave., Dublin. (Father, John B. Yeats; Mother, Susan Pollexfen Yeats) 1867 (July) Yeats family moves to 23 Fitzroy Road, London� 1877 (Spring) W.B. enrolls at Godolphin School, Hammersmith, London 1881 (Summer) Yeats family settles at Balscadden Cottage, Howth, near Dublin 1881 (Fall) W.B. attends Erasmus Smith High School, Dublin 1884 (May) WBY enrolls at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin 1885 (Apr.) First poems published in the Dublin University Review 1885 (June) Founds Dublin Hermetic Society with AE and Charles Johnston. Meets Katharine Tynan 1886 (Oct.) Mosada published privately 1889 (Jan.) The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems published. Meets Maud Gonne 1890 (Jan.) Founds Rhymers' Club with Ernest Rhys. 1892 (May) Irish Literary Society founded in London 1892 (Aug.) The Countess Kathleen (sic) published 1893 (Dec.) The Celtic Twilight published 1895 (Aug.) Poems published

6. 1896 (Feb.) Takes rooms at Woburn Buildings. Begins affair with Olivia Shakespear 1899 (Feb.) Visits her in Paris and proposes marriage 1899 (Apr.) The Wind Among the Reeds published 1900 (Jan.) Death of mother, Susan Yeats. 1901 (Oct.) Diarmuid and Grania produced in Dublin. 1902 The Pot of Broth produced by Irish National Theatre Society 1903 (Nov.) Leaves for first U.S. Lecture Tour 1907 (Jan.) J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World opens at Abbey 1908 (Sept.) First volumes of W. B. Yeats's Collected Works published 1911 (Sept.) W. B.accompanies Abbey Theatre on tour of U.S. 1911 (Oct.) Meets his future wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees

7. 1915 (May) Hugh Lane, Lady Gregory's nephew, drowned on S.S. Lusitania 1916 (Mar.) First volume of autibiography, Reveries over Childhood and Youth, published 1916 (Apr.) At the Hawk's Well, modeled on the Japanese Noh, produced in London 1916 (May) Execution of leaders of Easter Rising, among them John MacBride 1917 (Aug.) Proposes marriage to Maud Gonne's daughter Iseult and is refused 1917 (Oct.) Marries Georgie Hyde-Lees 1917 (Nov.) The Wild Swans at Coole published 1919 (Feb.) Birth of daughter Anne in Dublin 1920 (Jan.) Leaves with his wife for U.S. Lecture Tour

8. 1921 Birth of Michael Yeats in Oxfordshire 1921 (Oct.) Four Plays for Dancers published 1922 (Jan.) Civil War in Ireland 1922 (Feb.) John B. Yeats dies in New York 1922 (July) W. B. receives Honorary degree from Trinity College, Dublin 1922 (Oct.) The Trembling of the Veil, second volume of autobiography, published 1922 (Dec.) W. B. elected to the Irish Senate 1923 (Dec.) Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 1926 (Jan.) First version of A Vision published 1926 (Feb.) Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars opens at Abbey Theatre. W. B. challenges rioters from Abbey stage 1928 The Tower published 1928 (June) O'Casey's The Silver Tassie rejected by Abbey Theatre 1928 (Sept.) W. B. resigns from Irish Senate 1930 (Jan.) reads Jonathan Swift while recuperating from Malta fever in Italy 1939 {Jan.} W.B. Yeats dies

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10. Bibliography www.online-literature.com www.theatrehistory.com www.yeats-sligo.com www.researchumbc.com (chronology copied) www.quiesta.com