William butler yeats timeline7/27/2023 Lecture by Langdon Hammer Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website. His early work tended towards romantic lushness best described by the title of his 1893 collection The Celtic Twilight, but in his 40s, inspired by his relationships with modernist poets such as Ezra Pound and his involvement in Irish nationalist politics, he moved towards a harder, more modern style. Yeats’ poetry could be political in subject - this poem relates to the events of the unsuccessful Easter Rising, which was staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916.Īmerican writer Eudora Welty was influenced by Yeats’ poetry, including the lyric poem, “The Song of Wandering Aengus.”Ī Yale Courses lecture on William Butler Yeats YeatsĪn illustrated overview of “Easter 1916” by Saint Ignatius’ College English Faculty. Yeats matters today in the way that Shakespeare or Jonson or Dickinson. The photograph shows him sitting before the microphone in 1937. I It’s hard to overstate just how pivotal a figure in English literature William Butler Yeats was and remains. ![]() Yeats made these recordings for the wireless in 1932, 1934, and the last on 28 October 1937 when he was 72. ![]() In Yeats’ commentary, he explains that he is reading with an emphasis on rhythm, and as you listen, you will hear the lilting musicality of his reading. The Song of Wandering Aengus (below) “When You Are Old” Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.Įnjoy the following Yeats poetry available on the Excellence in Literature site: ![]() William Butler Yeats, painted by his father John Butler Yeats, 1900. So if you’d like to learn more about literary Ireland, tour the island from Sligo to Dublin and discover the places that inspired Yeats. William Butler Yeats (18651939): Irish poet and playwright Nobel Laureate. Lily Yeats establishes the Cuala Press, formerly the Dun Emer Press Jack and Lily Yeats begin publishing A Broadside 1910. EIL 4.3 Spenser, Gawain, and Arthurian Context Yeats was born on June 13th 1865 and in 1923 he was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.
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