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William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was the oldest child of his parents John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen. His father trained as a lawyer but decided to to abandon his career after his first son was born.
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Yeats started to purse his his own career as an art student at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin.
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He published his poems in the Dublin University Review, shorty he abandoned art school to pursue other careers.
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While in London he was active in societies that attempted an Irish literary revival. Yeats first volume verse appeared, but his dramatic production outweighed his poetry. -
He returned to London in the late 1890's. There he became acquainted with Maud Gonne, a revolutionary women. He tried proposing to her countless times. But she refused.
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Yeats published “John Sherman” and “Dhoya”, one a novella, the other a story. The two were re-published together in 1990 by The Lilliput Press in Dublin.
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After being turned down multiple times from Maud Gonne, Yeats dedicated his drama The Countless Cathleen to her.
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Yeats met friend and patron Lady Augusta Gregory.
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Abbey Theater Opens with Yeats as producer-manager.
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Riots in the Abbey Theater in response to J M Synge’s Playboy of the Western World.
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William Butler Yeats and Georgie (George) Hyde Lees met in 1911 and later married on 20 October, 1917.
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“The Wild Swans at Coole” was published after Yeats was spending a day at the park and saw 59 swans, and became inspired.
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Appointed to the first Irish Senate.
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William Butler Yeats retired from the Senate because of ill health.
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William Butler Yeats continued to write until his death on January 28, 1939. His poems and playwright left a legacy.
