4 good links
- Yeats Society Sligo
Resources for Yeats and his Irish homeland
- W. B. Yeats
Biography and selected poems
- William Butler Yeats
1938 Atlantic Monthly piece on Yeats' role in literature and politics
- Links to Poets
Big list, crowded but useful
William Butler Yeats Biography
William Butler Yeats was a towering figure in English literature at the turn of the 20th Century, not the least because of his poems and plays. Combining an immense knowledge of Irish folklore and Gaelic verse with a self-conscious flamboyance, Yeats was largely responsible for convincing the rest of the world that those Irish guys sure can write, and that they have a heck of a national identity as well. He was elected one of the first senators of the Irish Free State (1922-28), and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.
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An occultist, Yeats devised his literary theories based on what he believed to be supernatural communications through his wife, Georgie Lees.
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