" Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize ; such works include The Tower ( 1928 ) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems ( 1929 ).

His father, John Butler Yeats ( 1839 – 1922 ), was a descendant of Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier and linen merchant who died in 1712.

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 ".

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.

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

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

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 ).

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.

Two groups of poets emerged, the Yellow Book poets who adhered to the tenets of Aestheticism, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons and the Rhymers ' Club group that included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson and William Butler Yeats.

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.

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

Yeats as models and these writers struck a chord with a readership who were uncomfortable with the experimentation and uncertainty preferred by the modernists.

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.

In the 1910s, Yeats became acquainted with the work of James Joyce, and worked closely with Ezra Pound, who served as his personal secretary for a time.

Inevitably, a generation of poets who rebelled against the example of Yeats, but who were not Modernist by inclination, emerged from this environment.

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.

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.

The sisters were childhood friends of the poet W. B. Yeats, who frequently visited the family home Lissadell House, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.

After his death in London in 1908, Fenollosa's unpublished notes on Chinese poetry and Japanese Noh drama were confided by his widow to noted poet Ezra Pound who, with William Butler Yeats, used them to solidify the growing interest in Far Eastern literature among modernist writers.

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

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.

It went on to provide a breakthrough for some of the city's most famous writers, such as Synge, Yeats himself and George Bernard Shaw.

In November 2010, one of Yeats works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night, painted in 1948 and previously owned by novelist Graham Greene, sold for nearly £ 350, 000 at a Christie's auction in London.

In 1999 the painting, The Wild Ones, had sold at Sotheby's in London for over £ 1. 2m, the highest price yet paid for a Yeats painting.

Contributors included H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats ; the magazine became a forum for politics, literature, and the arts.

* Faculty members and students are jointly responsible for the educational experience, a collaboration guided by the words of William Butler Yeats: “ Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire .”

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.

In 1899, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and George Moore established the Irish Literary Theatre for the purpose of performing Irish and Celtic plays.

" The group's manifesto, which Yeats wrote, declared, " We hope to find in Ireland an uncorrupted & imaginative audience trained to listen by its passion for oratory ... & that freedom to experiment which is not found in the theatres of England, & without which no new movement in art or literature can succeed.

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.

Undeniably, Yeats was intrinsically an Irish Nationalist at heart, looking for a more simplistic and traditional lifestyle ; one that is displayed through his poems such as ' The Fisherman '.

* April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.

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 for a period, Ballyglunin railway station near Tuam Co. Galway, which was filmed as Inishfree station, and various places in Connemara Co Galway and Co Mayo.

) 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.

He is probably best known for his portrait of the young William Butler Yeats which is one of a number of his portraits of Irishmen and women in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland.

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.

There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre ( 1902 ), William Butler Yeats ' Deirdre ( 1907 ), J. M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows ( 1910 ), John Coulter's Deirdre of the Sorrows: An Ancient and Noble Tale Retold by John Coulter for Music by Healey Willian ( 1944 ), and Vincent Woods ' A Cry from Heaven ( 2005 ).

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.

In an article in La France, 1915, the French critic, Remy de Gourmont described the Imagists as descendants of the French Symbolistes and in a 1928 letter to the French critic and translator René Taupin, Pound was keen to emphasise another ancestry for Imagism, pointing out that Hulme was indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers ' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.

See also Leda and the Swan for the motif in the visual arts and the poem by William Butler Yeats.

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.