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W.B.YEATS Poet, 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
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W.B.YEATSPoet, author AND dramatist BY PETER FEGAN
birth & family • William butleryeats 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 play When 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