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Birth
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. -
Start of Yeats Career
Yeats started to purse his his own career as an art student at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. -
Publication of Poems
He published his poems in the Dublin University Review, shorty he abandoned art school to pursue other careers. -
First Volume of Verse
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. -
Start of Life
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. -
Yeats' Work
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. -
His First Drama
After being turned down multiple times from Maud Gonne, Yeats dedicated his drama The Countless Cathleen to her. -
New Friendships
Yeats met friend and patron Lady Augusta Gregory. -
Abbey Theater
Abbey Theater Opens with Yeats as producer-manager. -
Abbey Theater Events
Riots in the Abbey Theater in response to J M Synge’s Playboy of the Western World. -
Marriage
William Butler Yeats and Georgie (George) Hyde Lees met in 1911 and later married on 20 October, 1917. -
New Publications
“The Wild Swans at Coole” was published after Yeats was spending a day at the park and saw 59 swans, and became inspired. -
New Career
Appointed to the first Irish Senate. -
Retirement
William Butler Yeats retired from the Senate because of ill health. -
Death
William Butler Yeats continued to write until his death on January 28, 1939. His poems and playwright left a legacy.
