W.B.YEATS Poet, author AND dramatist

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W.B.YEATSPoet, author AND dramatist

• BY
• PETER FEGAN

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birth family

• William butler yeats was born
• in 13 june1865 Sandymount Dublin
• Yeats brother, jack became a painter and his
  sisters Elizabeth and Susan Mary were involved
  with arts and crafts movement
• His father was john butler yeats and his mother
  was called susan mary pollexfen childhood

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childhood

• Yeats and his family moved to londan to further
  his fathers art career
• First yeats was taught at home but in 1877 he
  attended goldfin school which he attended for
  four years
• For financial reasons they moved back to Dublin
  in 1880

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poetry

• yeats first
• poems were published
• in 1885 by Dublin
• university review
• The family returned to London in 1887. yeats and
  ernst rhys created the rhymers club in 1880
• Yeatst wrote lots of work manly about Irish
  legends

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Theatre

• in 1889 yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and
  George Moore founded the Irish literary theatre
  for celtic and Irish plays
• Then in 19o4 he founded
• The abbey theatre
• Yeats wrote his first play
• When he was 17

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lovers

• In 1889 yeats met
• Maud Gonne
• He asked her to marry
• him several times
• but she always said no
• He wrote a lot of his poems about her
• But in 1917 he married Georgie Hyde Lees
• They had two children

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Life and death

• Yeats was awarded the nobel prize in literature
  in 1923
• Yeats died in 1939
• He was buried in Sligo

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1865-1939