Yeats proposed to Gonne three more times: in 1899, 1900 and 1901.

At fifteen, she proposed to Yeats.

That September, Yeats proposed to 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees

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.

( At age 23, Iseult was proposed to by then-52-year-old William Butler Yeats, and she had a brief affair with Ezra Pound.

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

For a while, Tynan was a close associate of William Butler Yeats ( who may have proposed marriage and been rejected, around 1885 ), and later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge.

She had been proposed to by William Butler Yeats in 1917 and had a brief affair with Ezra Pound prior to meeting Stuart ; this is made ironic by Pound and Stuart's shared belief in the primacy of the artist and the way in which this belief lead Stuart to Nazi Germany and Pound to fascist Italy.

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.

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.

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 naturally hated MacBride and continually sought to deride and demean him both in his letters and his poetry.

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.

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

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

Yeats introduced Smith to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which she joined in 1901 and in the process met Waite.

George ( Georgie ) Hyde-Lees, the wife of William Butler Yeats, claimed that she could write automatically.

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

In 1891, she briefly joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a magical organization with which Yeats had involved himself.

In 1897, along with Yeats and Arthur Griffith, she organized protests against Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

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

In 1905, along with artists Sarah Purser, Nathaniel Hone, Walter Osborne and John Butler Yeats, she was instrumental in founding the United Artists Club, which was an attempt to bring together all those in Dublin with an artistic and literary bent.

In 1900 he made the acquaintance of W. B. Yeats ( of whom his mother highly approved ) and of George Moore ( of whom she did not ) and began to frequent Dublin literary circles.

During this time she met and became a friend of W. B. Yeats, acting as his amanuensis for some years.

This reflects patterns that can be detected in her poetry, in which she was clearly influenced by W. B. Yeats.

A professor at Cambridge and the author of a number of scholarly books, she was an expert on Coleridge, Blake, and Yeats.

During her marriage to Raymond Lovell she had an affair with Yeats.

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.

Born in County Sligo, Ireland, she was the daughter of John Butler Yeats and the sister of William Butler, Jack and Elizabeth Yeats.