Irish poet W. B Yeats developed the concept of poetic inspiration being the result of a conflict between the poet and his ' Daemon ' ( which he considered the disembodied spirits of the dead ) in his works of occult speculation such as ' A Vision '( 1925 ),

Stan and Hilda Ogden were often at the centre of overtly funny storylines, with other comic characters including Eddie Yeats ( Geoffrey Hughes ), Fred Gee ( Fred Feast ) and Jack Duckworth ( William Tarmey ) all making their first appearances during the decade.

Coronation Street's stalwart cast slotted back into the programme alongside the newcomers, examining new relationships between characters of different ages and backgrounds: Eddie Yeats became the Ogdens ' lodger, Gail Potter and Suzie Birchall moved in with Elsie, Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs ) arrived in 1976 as the tough factory boss, and Annie Walker reigned at the Rovers with her trio of staff Bet Lynch, Betty Turpin and Fred Gee.

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

The Gaelic Athletic Association, the Gaelic League and the cultural revival under W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, together with the new political thinking of Arthur Griffith expressed in his newspaper Sinn Féin and the organisations the National Council and the Sinn Féin League led to the identification of Irish people with the concept of a Gaelic nation and culture, completely independent of Britain.

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

with an introduction by Bruce Stewart, The Only Art of Jack B. Yeats Letters and essays ( Lilliput Press Dublin ).

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.

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

In 1890, Yeats co-founded the Rhymers ' Club with Ernest Rhys, a group of London based poets who met regularly in a Fleet Street tavern to recite their verse.

In particular, W. H. Auden criticised this aspect of Yeats ' work as the " deplorable spectacle of a grown man occupied with the mumbo-jumbo of magic and the nonsense of India.

The society held its first meeting on 16 June, with Yeats acting as its chairman.

After the Golden Dawn ceased and splintered into various offshoots, Yeats remained with the Stella Matutina until 1921.

Maud made a series of allegations against her husband with Yeats as her main ' second ' though he did not attend court or travel to France.

Yeats ' friendship with Gonne persisted, and, in Paris, in 1908, they finally consummated their relationship.

Nearly twenty years later, Yeats recalled the night with Gonne in his poem " A Man Young and Old ":

Although he was influenced by French Symbolism, Yeats concentrated on an identifiably Irish content and this inclination was reinforced by his involvement with a new generation of younger and emerging Irish authors.

Together with Lady Gregory, Martyn, and other writers including J. M. Synge, Seán O ' Casey, and Padraic Colum, Yeats was one of those responsible for the establishment of the " Irish Literary Revival " movement.

Yeats remained involved with the Abbey until his death, both as a member of the board and a prolific playwright.

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.

Yeats proposed in an indifferent manner, with conditions attached, and he both expected and hoped she would turn him down.

William Butler Yeats spent the turn of the twentieth century fascinated with Lough Allen and much of Leitrim.

) 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.

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 ).

" Yeats ' love initially remained unrequited, in part due to his reluctance to participate in her nationalist activism.

Foster has observed that Yeats ' last offer was motivated more by a sense of duty than by a genuine desire to marry her.

It featured an introduction by her friend William Butler Yeats, who wrote several pieces based on the legend, including the plays On Baile's Strand ( 1904 ), The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), At the Hawk's Well ( 1917 ), The Only Jealousy of Emer ( 1919 ) and The Death of Cuchulain ( 1939 ), and a poem, Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea ( 1892 ).

As a lyricist, Harvey has cited numerous poets, authors and lyricists as influences on her work including Harold Pinter, T. S Eliot, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ted Hughes and contemporaries such as Shane MacGowan and Jez Butterworth.

In 1903, he married her much to the horror and undying hatred of W. B. Yeats, whose muse she was and to whom Yeats had proposed many times.

Yeats was her main advisor and happily believed all she said about her husband.

Her illustration projects in the late 1890s included The Illustrated Verses of William Butler Yeats, a book on the actress Ellen Terry by Bram Stoker, and two of her own books, Widdicombe Fair and Fair Vanity.

She also continued her illustration work, taking on projects for William Butler Yeats and his brother, the painter Jack Yeats.

In 1903, Pamela launched her own magazine under the title The Green Sheaf, with contributions by Yeats, Christopher St John ( Christabel Marshall ), Cecil French, A. E. ( George William Russell ), Gordon Craig ( Ellen Terry's son ), Dorothy Ward, John Todhunter, and others.

Maud Gonne MacBride (, 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953 ) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with William Butler Yeats.

In 1889, she first met William Butler Yeats, who fell in love with her.

Yeats proposed to her once again in 1916, and she once again turned him down.

W. B. Yeats, Robin Skelton and Thom Gunn also appreciated Pitter's work and praised her poetry.

Yeats discovered her poetry while researching the Oxford Book of Modern Verse and said " My eyes filled with tears.

She was introduced to Yeats in 1935, and he eventually would edit and revise her poems as well as soliciting her comments on his works.

In 1903 Yeats persuaded her to go to Dublin to back productions by the Irish National Theatre Society.

* Constantinople appears as a city of wondrous majesty, beauty, remoteness, and nostalgia in William Butler Yeats ' 1928 poem " Sailing to Byzantium ".

In the refrain of " Easter, 1916 " (" All changed, changed utterly / A terrible beauty is born "), Yeats faces his own failure to recognise the merits of the leaders of the Easter Rising, due to his attitude towards their humble backgrounds and lives.

Few poets have celebrated a woman's beauty to the extent Yeats did in his lyric verse about Gonne.

The Yeats poem The Wild Swans at Coole was inspired by the beauty of the swans in the turlough at Coole Park.

Her 1984 album Shadows on a Dime received a rating of four stars ( out of five ) from Rolling Stone magazine, which called Ferron " a culture hero " and the album " cowgirl meets Yeats ... a thing of beauty.

This culminates in a passage bringing together Laurence Binyon's dictum slowness is beauty, the San Ku, or three sages, figures from the Chou King who are responsible for the balance between heaven and earth, Jacques de Molay, the golden section, a room in the church of St. Hilaire, Poitiers built to that rule where one can stand without throwing a shadow, Mencius on natural phenomena, the 17th-century English mystic John Heydon ( who Pound remembered from his days working with Yeats ) and other images relating to the worship of light including "' MontSegur, sacred to Helios ".

His work was heavily influenced by W. B. Yeats and displays an appreciation of the natural beauty of Counties Monaghan and Cavan and of the minutiae of family life.