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William Butler Yeats was born in County Dublin, Ireland. He had two sisters and one brother. His dad was a lawyer and well known painter.
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Yeats family left his beloved homeland to move the the streets of London, England. However, he spent his summers in Ireland.
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Two brief lyrics and an essay, "The Poetry of Samuel Ferguson", appears in "The Dublin University Review"
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Yeats was smitten with Maude Gonne, and they became good friends, though Yeats asked her to marry him several times, she refused, because he lacked entuisasm in the revolutionist movement.
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The Rhymer's Club was formed in London, and realesed two anotholigies 1892 and 1894. They were later caled the "Tragic Generation."
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Yeats co founded the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin. (Also known as the Abbey Theatre) It opened in 1904.
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Yeats traveled to America in for a lecture tour. He returned in 1914 ,1920, and 1932.
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Yeats married a friend he met in 1911, George Hyde Lees. They had two children, one boy and one girl.
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Yeats was appionted elected to the first Irish senate. He was reelected in 1925.
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Yeats is presented with the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.
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Yeats went under a Stienach operation. He was not detered, and in 1936 took the editorship of "The Oxford Book of Modern Verses".
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Yeats died in Menton, France. World War II delayed arrangements, but he was finally buried in Sligo, Ireland in 1948.
