William Butler Yeats
Irish
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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1865/06/13 | Susan Mary Pollexfen, wife of John Butler Yeats, gives birth to a son, William Butler Yeats, in Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland. | Born | Dublin | Province of Leinster | |||
1893/00/00 | "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is publish in Yeats's second book of poems, 'The Rose'. | Author | The Lake Isle of Innisfree | ||||
1924/06/00 | "Leda and the Swan" by William Butler Yeats appears in The Dial. | Author | Leda and the Swan (poem) | ||||
1928/02/14 | "The Tower" poetry collection Nobel Laureate by W B Yeats is published with a cover design by Thomas Sturge Moore. | Poet | Sailing to Byzantium | ||||
1936/00/00 | As editor of The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, W B Yeats leaves out the WW I combatant poets: "The writers of these poems were invariably officers of exceptional courage and capacity.... If the war is necessary ... it is best to forget its suffering". | Work | |||||
1937/04/00 | Edmund Dulac and Helen Beauclerc take WB Yeats to visit sisters Nora and Edith Shackleton Heald at their home, the Chantry House, in Steyning. Edith will become WB Yeats' last mistress. | Visitor | Chantry House | Steyning | |||
1938/08/15 | W B Yeats conceives of "Under Ben Bulben", writing "Draw rein, draw breath. cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman pass by." in the margin of a book on essays by Rilke. | Author | Benbulbin | Province of Connacht | |||
1939/01/26 | W B Yeats rallies towards nightfall and gives Mrs Yeats corrections for his poem "Under Ben Bulben". | Author | |||||
1939/01/28 | William Butler Yeats dies at the Hotel Ideal Sejour, in Menton, France. He was buried after a private funeral at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. | Died | Menton, FR | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |||
1948/00/00 | The remains of W B Yeats are carried home to Ireland by the Irish Naval Service and interred at in the graveyard of St Columba's Church. Observers included the Minister for External Affairs, Sean MacBride. | Memorium | Grave of William Butler Yeats | Drumcliff, IE-C |
3 Creative Works by William Butler Yeats »
Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree | Author | Poem | 1893/00/00 |
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Leda and the Swan (poem) | Author | Poem | 1924/06/00 |
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Sailing to Byzantium | Poet | Poem | 1928/02/14 |
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