Biography of William Butler Yeats, recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a lawyer.
William Butler Yeats, recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a lawyer. He was educated at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. He was a member of the Theosophical Society and formed the Dublin Lodge of the Hermetic Society.
Yeats wrote both poetry and plays. He published his first work, THE ISLAND OF STATUTES, when he was 20. Ireland is the central theme in most of his work.
William Butler Yeats died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France in 1939.
CHRONOLOGY
1865 He was born in Dublin, Ireland. (June 13)
1867 He moved with his family to London.
1881 He returned to Dublin.
1883 He attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin.
1885 THE ISLAND OF STATUTES
1886 MOSADA; He formed the Dublin Lodge of the Hermetic Society.
1888 FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
1889 THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN AND OTHER POEMS; He met Maud Gonne.
1891 JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA
1892 IRISH FAIRY TALES; THE COUNTESS KATHLEEN AND OTHER LEGENDS AND LYRICS
1893 THE CELTIC TWILIGHT
1894 THE LAND OF THE HEARS DESIRE
1895 POEMS
1897 WHERE THERE IS NOTHING; THE TABLES OF THE LAW: THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI; THE SPECLED BIRD
1899 THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS
1900 THE SHADOWY WATERS
1902 CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN
1903 IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL; ON BAILE' STRAND; THE HOUR GLASS; IN THE SEVEN WOODS
1904 THE KINGS THRESHOLD
1905 STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN
1908 THE GOLDEN HELMET
1910 THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS; THE TRAVELING MAN
1911 PLAYS FOR THE IRISH THEATRE
1912 THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN
1914 REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH; RESPONSIBILITIES
1916 SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, THE SECOND COMING; AT THE HAWK'S WELL; EASTER
1917 PER AMICA SILENTIA LUNAE; THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE; He bought Thoor Ballyle, a stone tower near Coole Park.; He married Georgie Hyde-Lee.
1918 THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE
1919 His daughter, Anne Butler Yeats, was born.
1920 FOUR PLAYS FOR DANCERS
1921 MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER; His son, William Michael Yeats, was born.
1922 THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL; He became a member of the Irish Senate.
1923 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1925 A VISION
1928 THE TOWER
1932 STORIES OF MICHAEL ROBARTES AND HIS FRIENDS; He founded the Irish Academy of Letters.
1933 THE WINDING STAIR; COLLECTED POEMS; He became involved with the Blueshirts in Dublin.
1934 COLLECTED PLAYS; THE WORDS UPON THE WINDOW PANE; WHEELS AND BUTTERFLIES
1935 DRMATIS PERSONAE; PARNELL'S FUNERAL AND OTHER POEMS
1936 THE OXFORD BOOK OF VERSE
1937 TEN PRINCIPAL UPANISHAD; ESSAYS 1931-36
1938 NEW POEMS
1939 LAS POEMS AND TWO PLAYS; ON THE BOILER; He died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. (January 28)
1940 LETTERS ON POETRY FROM W.B. YEATS TO DOROTHY WELLESLEY
1951 DIARMUID AND GRANIA
1953 COLLECTED PLAYS; W.B. YEATS AND T. STURGE MOORE: THEIR CORRESPONDENCE; SOME LETTERS OF W.B. YEATS TO KATHERINE TYNAN
1954 THE LETTERS OF W.B. YEATS
1955 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
1957 POEMS
1959 MYTHOLOGIES
1960 THE SENATE SPEECHES
1961 ESSAYS AND INTRODUCTIONS
1962 EXPLORATIONS
1966 PLAYS
1970 AH, SWEET DANCER
1972 MEMOIRS
1977 THE CORRESONDENCE OF ROBERT BRIDGES AND W.B. YEATS
1984 THE POEMS: A NEW EDITION
1985 PURGATORY
1986 THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF W.B. YEATS
1991 THE HERNE'S EGG
1992 THE GONNE-YEATS LETTERS
