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

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

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.

Later, Lady Ottoline remained a regular host to the adherents of the Bloomsbury Group, in particular Virginia Woolf, and to many other artists and authors, who included WB Yeats, LP Hartley, T. S.

He later parted ways with Yeats and Gregory, something he later regretted, but remained on warm terms with Lady Gregory till the end of his life.

Influenced by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, several prominent writers and artists were involved in these organizations, including William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne, Arthur Edward Waite, and Aleister Crowley.

The Butler Yeats family were highly artistic ; his brother Jack became an esteemed painter, while his sisters Elizabeth and Susan Mary — known to family and friends as Lollie and Lily — became involved in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

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

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

Besides its value to historians, this canon has contributed a great deal to modern literature beginning with retellings by William Butler Yeats and other authors involved with the Celtic Revival.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" Thoreau also influenced many artists and authors including Edward Abbey, Willa Cather, Marcel Proust, William Butler Yeats, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, E. B.

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 Abbey served as a nursery for many of the leading Irish playwrights and actors of the 20th century, including William Butler Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Sean O ' Casey and John Millington Synge.

Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre.

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.

Equally importantly, through the introduction by Yeats, via Ezra Pound, of elements of the Noh theatre of Japan, a tendency to mythologise quotidian situations, and a particularly strong focus on writings in dialects of Hiberno-English, the Abbey was to create a style that held a strong fascination for future Irish dramatists.

Equally importantly, through the introduction by Yeats, via Ezra Pound, of elements of the Noh theatre of Japan, a tendency to mythologise quotidian situations, and a particularly strong focus on writings in dialects of Hiberno-English, the Abbey was to create a style that held a strong fascination for future Irish dramatists.

* Aidan O ' Brien – Yeats ( 2005 ), Scorpion ( 2007 ), Soldier of Fortune ( 2008 ), Fame and Glory ( 2010 ), St Nicholas Abbey ( 2011, 2012 )

* Sue Magnier – Yeats ( 2005 ), Scorpion ( 2007 ), Soldier of Fortune ( 2008 ), Fame and Glory ( 2010 ), St Nicholas Abbey ( 2011, 2012 )

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.

In August 1907, his interest in the theatre began after he went to see an Abbey production of plays by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory at the Cork Opera House.

Shortly thereafter, and unexpectedly, Payne was approached by William Butler Yeats, one of the Directors of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Payne met with Yeats and the other two directors of the Abbey, Lady Gregory and J. M.

Outside London he worked for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on plays by W. B. Yeats and J. M.

* 4 February-In a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, the poet W. B. Yeats denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.

* 1 November-George Bernard Shaw's comedy about Ireland, John Bull's Other Island, opens at the Royal Court Theatre, London, after W. B. Yeats rejects it for the Abbey Theatre.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Anne Yeats trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy school from 1933 – 36 and worked as a stage designer with the Abbey before taking up painting full time in 1941 ; she had a touching naive expressionist style and was interested in representing domestic humanity.

In 1911, he directed an amateur production of The Countess Cathleen which was seen by Yeats ; Yeats subsequently invited Monck to become temporary director of the Abbey Theatre while Yeats and the main company toured the United States.

It draws on the story of " The Dead ", the final short story in Joyce's first major work, Dubliners, and was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre.

Yeats for the opening of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, but Yeats rejected it as too long, too controversial and too difficult to produce.