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 ":

The village is shown on Ptolemy's map of Ireland as Nagnata and was once a thriving town, as John Butler Yeats remarked in a letter to his son W B Y in 1913: " My father, tho ' a low Churchman, hated Presbyterianism and Presbyterians.

John MacBride had been executed by British forces for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, and Yeats thought that his widow might remarry.

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.

After having turned down at least four marriage proposals from Yeats between 1891 and 1901, Maud married Major John MacBride in Paris in 1903.

Although Yeats died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France in January 1939, his remains were brought home to Ireland by the Irish Naval Service and re-interred at Drumcliff in 1948 in the presence of a large number of local people and dignitaries which included the Minister for External Affairs, Seán MacBride, who represented the Government.

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

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

In later life, Yeats paid tribute to Blake by describing him as one of the " great artificers of God who uttered great truths to a little clan ".

This pleased Yeats as Maud began to visit him in London.

Gregory encouraged Yeats ' nationalism, and convinced him to continue focusing on writing drama.

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

As a young man he enjoyed being cutting about William Butler Yeats, but remained on good enough terms to visit him in later years at Rapallo.

Yeats ( 1907 ) The need to support Ida Nettleship ( 1877 – 1907 ), whom he married in 1901, led him to accept a post teaching art at the University of Liverpool.

He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as " the handsomest young man in England ".

Yeats, although not a modernist, was to learn a lot from the new poetic movements that sprang up around him and adapted his writing to the new circumstances.

Maud Gonne wrote to Yeats " No I dont like your poem, it isn't worthy of you & above all it isn't worthy of its subject ... As for my husband he has entered eternity by the great door of sacrifice ... so that praying for him I can also ask for his prayers ".

Shortly afterwards he befriended Caesar Otway, according to W. B. Yeats, an " anti-papal controversialist " who encouraged him to write stories to " highlight ... the corrupt practices of an ignorant clergy.

W. B. Yeats had the highest praise for Turner's poetry, saying that it left him " lost in admiration and astonishment ", and included some of it in his Oxford Book of Modern Poetry ( while omitting several authors very much better known today for their verse, such as Wilfred Owen ).

She refused many marriage proposals from Yeats because she viewed him as insufficiently nationalist and because of his unwillingness to convert to Catholicism.

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

At a press conference when Yeats came to Liverpool, Shankly emphasised Yeats's huge size by inviting the journalists to " go and walk round him ; he's a colossus!

He successfully revitalized a rural tradition with many English antecedents from his beloved Golden Treasury and produced an oeuvre of major importance, rivaling or even excelling in achievement that of the key modernists and making him, within the full sweep of more traditional modern English-language verse, a peer of Hardy and Yeats.

It was George Moore who broke that work together, putting his own name on the " Bending of the Bough ", rewritten by him and Yeats but on Edward's foundation.

Yeats included him in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892 – 1935.

During the riots caused by the Abbey Theatre's production of The Playboy of the Western World, Colum, with Arthur Griffith, was the leader of those inciting the protests, which, as he later remarked, cost him his friendship with Yeats.

He published several poems in Arthur Griffith's paper, The United Irishman this time, with The Poor Scholar bringing him to the attention of WB Yeats.

When Yeats was signed, Shankly was so impressed and proud of the physical presence of his new player that he told waiting journalists to " The man is a mountain, go into the dressing room and walk around him ".

Yeats lived up to the reputation and the nickname (" The Colossus ") his huge frame gave him, playing at the heart of Liverpool's defence for a decade and winning the club's first major honours in nearly 20 years.

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

His encounter with the poetry of Yeats and the landscapes of Ireland resulted in many new works, both musical and literary.

With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.

This theme, about the challenges of aging both on an individual and societal level, leads to a line, " No country, this, for old men ," an ironic reference to the opening line of the W. B. Yeats poem, " Sailing to Byzantium ".

Apart from Yeats, much of the impetus for the Celtic Revival came from the work of scholarly translators who were aiding in the discovery of both the ancient sagas and Ossianic poetry and the more recent folk song tradition in Irish.

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.

He published several books on art and artists, including Jack B. Yeats: An Appreciation and an Interpretation ( on Jack Butler Yeats ) and Pictures in the Irish National Gallery ( both 1945 ), and Nicolas Poussin ( 1960 ) on Nicholas Poussin.

Yeats wrote a poem, In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz, in which he described the sisters as " two girls in silk kimonos, both beautiful, one a gazelle ".

While he was in Pula he organised the local printing of his broadsheet The Holy Office, which satirised both William Butler Yeats and George William Russell.

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

Katharine Tynan Katharine Tynan ( 23 January 1859, not 1861 as she always claimed-see Collected letters of W B Yeats, p 516 ) – 2 April 1931 ) was an Irish-born writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry.

Notable practitioners of elegiac poetry have included Propertius, Jorge Manrique, Jan Kochanowski, Chidiock Tichborne, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Thomas Gray, Charlotte Turner Smith, William Cullen Bryant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evgeny Baratynsky, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Louis Gallet, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Virginia Woolf.

He learnt many of the plays by heart and memorised great quantities of Yeats ' poetry.

From 1900, Yeats ' poetry grew more physical and realistic.

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.

Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner, and she was to have a significant and lasting effect on his poetry and his life thereafter.

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.

Yeats also recounts the myth of Leda and the Swan in his poetry.

His wife, a spiritualist, practised it, and Yeats put large chunks of it into his prose work, A Vision and much of his later poetry.

The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore was praised by William Butler Yeats for his lyric poetry and compared with the troubadour poets, when the two met in 1912.

Themes of paternity, heroism and pastoralism abound in the novel and several of the characters make oblique references to the poetry of William Butler Yeats, himself an advocate of the mythic tales of the Ulster Cycle.

Future Nobel Prize winner William Butler Yeats was devoting much of his energy to the Abbey Theatre and writing for the stage, producing relatively little lyric poetry during this period.

The poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats ( 1865 – 1939 ) spent much of his childhood in northern Sligo and the county's landscapes ( particularly the Isle of Innisfree, in Lough Gill ) were the inspiration for much of his poetry.

Bax ’ s poetry and stories, which he wrote under the pseudonym of Dermot O ’ Byrne, reflect his profound affinity with Irish poet W. B. Yeats and are largely written in the tradition of the Irish Literary Revival.

His extensive correspondence with the poet Yeats details his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry as had been practiced by the ancient Greeks.

In 1985 he sang William Butler Yeats poetry.

Ferguson's research opened the way for many of the achievements of the Celtic Revival, especially those of Yeats and Douglas Hyde, but this narrative of Irish poetry which leads to the Revival as culmination can also be deceptive and occlude important poetry, such as the work of James Henry ( 1798 – 1876 ), medical doctor, Virgil scholar and poet.

Half / slant rhyme has been found in English-language poetry as early as Henry Vaughan, but it was not until the works of W. B. Yeats and Gerard Manley Hopkins that it found wide use among English-language poets.

Synge ( 1871 – 1909 ), who spent some time in the Irish-speaking Aran Islands, and in the early poetry of William Butler Yeats ( 1865 – 1939 ), where Irish mythology is used in a personal and idiosyncratic way.

Clarke's early poetry clearly shows the influence of Yeats.