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W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June – 28 January ) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland. His father practised law and was a successful portrait painter. He was educated in Dublin and London and spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. While in London he became part of the Irish literary revival. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats, William Wordsworth, William Blake and many more. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the turn of the century. His earliest volume of verse was published in , and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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A characteristic trait throughout his life was continuously editing and re-revising his earlier work and republishing it. He was always experimenting as poet and playwright, developing old and new themes, including the occult, spiritual interests, India, Japanese Noh style plays and automatic writing.
He joined a secret society called The Golden Dawn, a group that believed in the practice of ritual magic and he remained a long standing member of this group, exploring related themes in some of his work. He dreamed of setting up his ‘Castle of Heroes’ on Castle island in Lough Key, where 20th century Ireland might commune with its mystical past. In old age he regretted this didn’t materialise.
In the early years of the 20th century, Yeats was involved extensively with the Abbey Theatre, managing and writing up to 10 plays in this period. The Yeats household including W.B. was supported financially in the s by his sisters Lily (Susan Mary Yeats) and Lollie (Elizabeth Corbet Yeats).
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