8/11/2023 0 Comments William butler yeats timeline![]() He is said to have proposed to her a number of times. Yeats had first met the beautiful firebrand nationalist Gonne in 1889 and immediately fell in love with her. He attended séances and was a prominent member of “The Golden Dawn” a secretive and Rosicrucian type movement, into which he was to introduce the heiress Maud Gonne. In 1893 he was to bring forward his collection of Essays entitled ‘’The Celtic Twilight’’ followed in 1895 by “Poems” in 1897 by “The Secret Rose” and in 1899 he produced his poetry collection ‘’The Wind among the Reeds.’’īesides his poetry and essay writing, Yeats had also developed a life-long interest in things esoteric. In 1889 Yeats published the “The wanderings of Oisin and other poems”. As his work developed, Yeats began to draw his influence, more and more, from the Irish folklore and myths of his beloved county Sligo. Yeats poetry at this time was heavily influenced by Shelly and the works of the 16th century English poet Edmund Spenser. Here William was to meet many of Dublin’s literary class at his father’s studio and also to produce his first poetry and an essay on the Ulster Scottish poet Sir Samuel Ferguson. In 1867, John took his wife and five children to live in England but, unable to make much of a living he was obliged to return to Dublin in 1880. In Sligo, the young William grew up in a time of great change for Irish society and in particular for the Protestant Anglo Irish Ascendency who had until now, controlled Ireland. Here they spent their childhood under the care of their maternal Grandparents. Shortly after his birth, the Yeats children were removed from Sandymount to the Pollexfen home at Merville in Sligo. Their money came from Shipping and Milling. Yeats mother Susan Mary Pollexfen, was a member of a wealthy Anglo Irish family of County Sligo. ![]() The family were Anglo Irish and descended from a linen merchant, Jervis Yeats, who had served in the army of King William of Orange. His father, John, was a portrait painter and non- practicing barrister. William Butler Yeats, poet, playwright and Irish nationalist was born in Sandymount, County Dublin on July 13th, 1865. ![]()
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