William Butler Yeats (person)

1865-1939, Irish poet and playwright

Leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance. He wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree and When You Are Old. In 1898 he helped found the Irish Literary Theatre, where his The Countess Cathleen 1899 and Cathleen ni Houlihan 1902 were performed. The Hour Glass 1904, The Land of Heart's Desire 1904, and Deirdre 1907.

Volumes he wrote:

• The Wind Among the Reeds - 1899 - Won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature
• The Green Helmet and Other Poems - 1910
• Plays for an Irish Theatre - 1911
• Stories of Red Hanrahan: The Secret Rose: Rosa Alchemica - 1913
• Responsibilities - 1916
• Words for Music Perhaps - 1936
• Autobiographies - Modern Library's 100 Best Books: Nonfiction

Poems he wrote:

• The Sorrow of Love 1892
• The Second Coming
• Sailing to Byzantium
• An Irish Airman foresees his Death
• When You Are Old
• September 1913
• The lover wishes for the cloths of heaven
• To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
• Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
• Leda and the Swan
• A Dream of Death
• A Drinking Song
• Easter 1916
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• No Second Troy
• The Song of Wandering Aengus
• The Stolen Child
• Those Images
• To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
• The Wild Swans at Coole - 1919
• He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
• The Cap and Bells - 1899
• The Folly of Being Comforted
• When You Are Old

Related Nodes:

• Yeats' antithetical Self
• British and Irish Poetry
• A Woman Young and Old
• The Wild Swans at Coole
• The Everything Anthology of British and Irish Poetry
• 100 Favourite Irish Poems
• William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed
• In Memory of W. B. Yeats
• The Countess Cathleen
• What face did you have before your mother and father were born?
• Everything Quests: The Nobel Prize winners

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