Yeats
William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1923.
Other words from Yeats
- Yeats·i·an, adjective
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How to use Yeats in a sentence
Sex and death,” William Butler Yeats once wrote, “are the only things that can interest a serious mind.
How Hollywood’s Most Realistic Sex Scenes Were Made: ‘Don’t Look Now’ to ‘Nymphomaniac’ | Marlow Stern | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile on her honeymoon with poet W.B. Yeats, she was devastated to discover he was pining for another woman.
Seduce Like a Writer: How 7 Famous Scribes Wooed | Joni Rendon, Shannon McKenna Schmidt | February 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDear Sir,” it began, “Mr. Yeats has been speaking to me of your writing.
From that perspective, the story is satirical not about Yeats so much as it is about Yeats-olatry.
The eminence was asked, the next morning, “Well, you've met the young Yeats— what did you think of him?”
Yeats-Brown was still at large in the city, dressed in girl's clothes lent him by Miss Whittaker.
Eastern Nights - and Flights | Alan BottI remember that an old poet named Yeats said something about writing poems—the fascination with what's difficult.
What Rough Beast? | Jefferson HigheWilliam Butler Yeats, originally an artist, has a mystical element in his verse which gives it a sort of unearthly quality.
The Complete Club Book for Women | Caroline French BentonGeorge W. Russell writes verse with much of the same wistful nature as that of Yeats.
The Complete Club Book for Women | Caroline French BentonMr. Yeats reads into elfland all the righteous insurrection of his own race.
Orthodoxy | G. K. Chesterton
British Dictionary definitions for Yeats
/ (jeɪts) /
Jack Butler. 1871–1957, Irish painter
his brother W (illiam) B (utler). 1865–1939, Irish poet and dramatist. His collections of verse include Responsibilities (1914), The Tower (1928), and The Winding Stair (1929). Among his plays are The Countess Cathleen (1892) and Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902); he was a founder of the Irish National Theatre Company at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1923
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