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William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland, on June 13, 1865, by John and Susan Yeats. -
When William was two, his family moved to London where he spent his holidays and boyhood with his grandparents. -
He was accepted into the Metropolitan School of Art where he met other poets and artists, and was the most important part of his education -
Yeats’ first poems, as well as an essay entitled “The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson”, were published in the Dublin University Review. -
He met Maud Gonne, who he thought was beautiful and brilliant, fell in love with her, but she didn't love him -
Yeats co-founded the Rhymer’s Club with Ernest Rhys, a group of poets who met frequently in a Fleet Street tavern to recite their verse. -
he help founded the Irish Literary Society in London. He also founded the National Literary Society in Dublin -
“When You Are Old” His poem was published immediately in his second collection, the Rose. ww -
Yeats asked Maud to marry him, but she declined leaving him heartbroken -
had a first performance in Dublin, at the Irish Literary Theater -
Abbey Theatre Opens with Yeats as producer-manager -
Yeats asked Maud Gonne’s daughter, Iseult Gonne, to marry him, she declined the proposal as well. He proposed to George Hyde-Lees, to which they got married and had their children Anne and William Jr. -
Yeats accepted to become a member of the new Irish Senate, and served for the next six years. -
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which is a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." -
He died of heart failure, he planned to be buried in Ireland but was buried in Roquebrune, France.