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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A number of horses have won it more than once, and the most successful is Yeats, who recorded his fourth victory in 2009.

Across the Slieve Aughty, about 30 miles from Woodford in Gort is where the poet William Butler Yeats once lived.

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.

Following the work, Yeats never again attempted another long poem.

It was first published under this title in his first book, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, but in fact the same poem had appeared twice before: as an epilogue to Yeats ' poem The Isle of Statues, and again as an epilogue to his verse play Mosada.

Years later, W. B. Yeats famously declared to rioters against Seán O ' Casey's pacifist drama The Plough and the Stars, in reference to the " Playboy Riots ": " You have disgraced yourself again, is this to be the recurring celebration of the arrival of Irish genius?

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

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.

By 1916, Yeats was 51 years old and determined to marry and produce an heir.

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

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 ":

* September-W. B. Yeats ' poem Easter 1916 published.

Edwin John Ellis ( 1848 – 1916 ) was a British poet and illustrator, now remembered mostly for the three-volume collection of the works of William Blake he edited with W. B. Yeats.

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

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

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.

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

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.