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William Butler Yeats

W. B. Yeats

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939).

Statements about William Butler Yeats

Family Name

Yeats
Series Ordinal
:2
Butler
Series Ordinal
:1
Butler Yeats

Occupation

Poet
Playwright
Writer
Politician
Mystic
Astrologer

Place of Birth

Sandymount
Country
:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Native Language

English

Country of Citizenship

Irish Free State

Father

John Butler Yeats

Mother

Susan Pollexfen

Award Received

Nobel Prize in Literature
 (1923)
Award Rationale
: for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation
Award Rationale
: för hans ständigt besjälade diktning, som i den strängaste konstnärliga form ger uttryck åt ett folks anda
Point in Time
: 1923
Prize Money
: 114,935 Swedish krona
Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
 (1934)
Point in Time
: 1934
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Doctor of Letters
Conferred By
:
University of Dublin

Date of Birth

6/13/1865
3/13/1865

Date of Death

1/28/1939

Place of Death

Menton
Country
:
France
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Image

Instance Of

Human

Given Name

William

Position Held

Senator of Ireland
 (9/11/1922 - 12/6/1928)
Parliamentary Group
:
Independent Politician
Parliamentary Term
:
1st Seanad
Electoral District
:
Nominated Members of Seanad Éireann
End Time
: 12/6/1928
Start Time
: 9/11/1922

Member Of

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Royal Society of Literature

Image of Grave

Commons Gallery

William Butler Yeats

Place of Burial

Drumcliff

Archives At

12 items
Leeds University Library
Inventory Number
:BC MS 20c Yeats
Official Website
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Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives
Inventory Number
:SC327
Harry Ransom Center
Inventory Number
:MS-4619
Title
: William Butler Yeats Collection
Bodleian Library
British Library
University at Buffalo Libraries
Boston College University Libraries
Houghton Library
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
National Library of Ireland
University of Reading, Special Collections

Nominated For

Nobel Prize in Literature
 (1902)
Point in Time
: 1902
Nobel Prize in Literature
 (1914)
Point in Time
: 1914
Nobel Prize in Literature
 (1915)
Point in Time
: 1915
Nobel Prize in Literature
 (1918)
Point in Time
: 1918
Nobel Prize in Literature
 (1921)
Point in Time
: 1921
Nobel Prize in Literature
 (1922)
Point in Time
: 1922
Nobel Prize in Literature
 (1923)
Point in Time
: 1923

Sibling

Elizabeth Yeats
Lily Yeats
Jack Butler Yeats
Robert Corbet Yeats
Jane Grace Yeats

Described by Source

10 items
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Q24422281
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th Edition
Statement Is Subject Of
:
EB-1911 / Yeats, William Butler
Obálky Knih
URL
:bug2: http://wikiba.se/ontology#Url
Thom's Irish Who's Who
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Yeats, William Butler
Library of the World's Best Literature
Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Yeats, William Butler
New International Encyclopedia
Statement Is Subject Of
:
The New International Encyclopædia/Yeats, William Butler
Poets of Reality
Olomouc City Library Regional Database
Subject Named As
:Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939
URL
:bug2: http://wikiba.se/ontology#Url
Olomouc City Library Regional Database
Subject Named As
:Yeats, Butler Wiliam, 1865-1939
URL
:bug2: http://wikiba.se/ontology#Url

Name in Native Language

William Butler Yeats

Ethnic Group

Irish People
Reason for Deprecated Rank
:
Source Known to Be Unreliable

Educated At

National College of Art and Design
The High School, Dublin

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Sex or Gender

Male

Spouse

Georgie Hyde-Lees

Child

Anne Yeats
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:1
Michael Yeats
Series Ordinal
:2

Has Works in the Collection

Tate
Victoria and Albert Museum

Writing Language

English

Influenced By

10 items
William Blake
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edmund Spenser
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oscar Wilde
William Morris
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Jakob Böhme
Augusta, Lady Gregory
Dante

Student Of

William Blake

Part Of

Yeats Family

Unmarried Partner

Maud Gonne
Olivia Shakespear
Margot Ruddock

Field of Work

Fiction
Poetry
Drama

Depicted By

W.B. Yeats
Creator
:
Augustus John

Medical Condition

Dyslexia
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