Yeats version, it is subtly suggested that Clytemnestra, although being the daughter of Tyndareus, has somehow been traumatised by what the swan has done to her mother ( see below ).

Perhaps then, it must be said although Yeats was intrinsically a nationalist, he had a deeper desire to live simply.

Gaelic revival and Irish nationalism frequently overlapped in Gaelic Revival hangouts such as An Stad, a tobacconist on North Frederick Street owned by the writer Cathal McGarvey and frequented by literary figures such as James Joyce ( although Joyce was thoroughly contemptuous of the movement, feeling it betrayed the realities of urban Ireland ) and Yeats, along with leaders of the Nationalist movement such as Douglas Hyde, Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins.

The art historian Theo Snoddy describes him as ‘ the main follower ’ of Clarke at the school but, although his illustrations from the 1920s onwards are unmistakably influenced by the work of his friend, his earlier work, which includes his cartoons for Sinn Féin, reveals his debt to the principal book illustrators at the turn of the century, chief among them being Jack B. Yeats.

Symbolism had a significant influence on modernism, and its traces can be detected in the work of many modernist artists, including T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Hart Crane, and William Butler Yeats in the anglophone tradition and Rubén Darío in Hispanic literature.

Through Pound, Yeats also became familiar with the work of a range of prominent modernist poets.

The generation of Irish poets who followed Yeats were, to simplify, divided between those who were influenced by his early Celtic style and those who followed such modernist figures as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, both of whom wrote poetry as well as their better known fiction and drama.

Her collection, Prometheus and Other Poems, was the first collection of poetry published by an Irish poet, besides Yeats, which could be considered modernist.

After his death in London in 1908, Fenollosa's unpublished notes on Chinese poetry and Japanese Noh drama were confided by his widow to noted poet Ezra Pound who, with William Butler Yeats, used them to solidify the growing interest in Far Eastern literature among modernist writers.

Others may prefer to think of him, despite his academic standing, as anti-intellectual or lacking in complexity in a period when modernist poetry, from TS Eliot to the later works of William Butler Yeats, tended to be esoteric and difficult.

It was in this year that another Irish modernist, W. B. Yeats, died.

The Abbey was founded in 1904 by a group that included Yeats with the aim of promoting indigenous literary talent.

William Butler Yeats was occasionally critical of Poe and once called him " vulgar ".

Ruickbie, Hutton, and others further argue that much of what has been published of Gardnerian Wicca, as Gardner's practice came to be known by, was written by Blake, Yeats, Valiente and Crowley and contains borrowings from other identifiable sources.

In the 20th century a loose ballad-like six-foot line with a strong medial pause was used by William Butler Yeats.

John " Jack " Butler Yeats ( 29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957 ) was an Irish artist and Olympic medallist.

His brother was William Butler Yeats.

Yeats was born in London, England.

He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.

Mrs Salter recorded W. B. Yeats as saying " It's my belief that if you psychical researchers had been about when God Almighty was creating the world, he couldn't have done the job ".

William Butler Yeats was generally critical of Poe, calling him " vulgar.

William Butler Yeats ( ; 13 June 186528 January 1939 ) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years.

Yeats was a very good friend of Indian Bengali poet Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Yeats was born and educated in Dublin, but spent his childhood in County Sligo.

An Anglo-Irishman, William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland.

His father, John Butler Yeats ( 1839 – 1922 ), was a descendant of Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier and linen merchant who died in 1712.

At the time of his marriage, John Yeats was studying law but abandoned his studies to study art at Heatherley's Art School in London.

" Though he had difficulty with mathematics and languages ( possibly because Yeats was tone deaf ,) he was fascinated by biology and zoology.

It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.

During 1885, Yeats was involved in the formation of the Dublin Hermetic Order.

During séances held from 1912, a spirit calling itself " Leo Africanus " apparently claimed it was Yeats ' Daemon or anti-self, inspiring some of the speculations in Per Amica Silentia Lunae.

Gonne was eighteen months younger than Yeats and later claimed she met the poet as a " paint-stained art student.

" Yeats ' childhood and young adulthood were shadowed by the power shift away from the minority Protestant Ascendancy.

Balscadden House in Howth, Ireland, where Yeats lived from 1880-83

" By January 1909, Gonne was sending Yeats letters praising the advantage given to artists who abstain from sex.

A more indirect influence was the scholarship on Japanese Noh plays that Pound had obtained from Ernest Fenollosa's widow, which provided Yeats with a model for the aristocratic drama he intended to write.

The emergence of a nationalist revolutionary movement from the ranks of the mostly Roman Catholic lower-middle and working class made Yeats reassess some of his attitudes.

However, due to the escalating tension of the political scene Yeats distanced himself from the core political activism in the midst of the Easter Rising, even holding back his poetry inspired by the events until 1920.

In England, Plotinus was the cardinal influence on the 17th-century school of the Cambridge Platonists, and on numerous writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to W. B. Yeats and Kathleen Raine.

In the northwest, 11 km from Manorhamilton can be found Glencar Waterfall, which was an inspiration to Yeats and is mentioned in his poem The Stolen Child.

) released at the tail end of a year anyone could agree was the embittered honeymoon's end for the Love Generation, the year when, to borrow from a famous Yeats poem, the center decidedly could not hold ... for whatever reason, The Beatles is still one of the few albums by the Fab Four that resists reflexive canonisation, which, along with society's continued fragmentation, keeps the album fresh and surprising.

* Janis Londraville, editor, ( 2003 ) Prodigal Father Revisited: Artists and writers in the World of John Butler Yeats, Locust Hill Press, includes papers from first John Butler Yeats Seminar, Chestertown 2001.

* James White ( 1972 ), John Butler Yeats and The Irish Renaissance with pictures from the collection of Michael Butler Yeats and from The National Gallery of Ireland The Dolmen Press Dublin.

There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre ( 1902 ), William Butler Yeats ' Deirdre ( 1907 ), J. M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows ( 1910 ), John Coulter's Deirdre of the Sorrows: An Ancient and Noble Tale Retold by John Coulter for Music by Healey Willian ( 1944 ), and Vincent Woods ' A Cry from Heaven ( 2005 ).

According to William Butler Yeats, the great wealth of these fairies comes from the " treasure-crocks, buried of old in war-time ", which they have uncovered and appropriated.

He proved highly receptive to the soft, melancholy moods of the Irish Literary Revival and found in Yeats a powerful muse, from which he derived a lifetime of inspiration.

Yeats, who hated MacBride for capturing his muse Maud Gonne, and who later heard negative reports of MacBride's treatment of Gonne in their marriage, from Gonne herself, gave him the following ambivalent eulogy in his poem " Easter, 1916 ":

Founded by Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W. B. Yeats in 1899 — with assistance from George Moore — it presented plays in the Ancient Concert Rooms and the Gaiety Theatre, which brought critical approval but limited public interest.

It also becomes clear from DuPont's choice of words that he, too, does not take Prozium and has been reading the poems of Yeats.

A selection from his stories ( 1889 ), in the " Camelot Series ", has an introduction by William Butler Yeats.