William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (Dublin, 13. svibnja 1865. - Menton, 28. siječnja 1939.)  irski pjesnik i dramski pisac, jedan od najvećih književnika 20. stoljeća. Dobitnik Nobelove nagrade za književnost 1923. godine.

Životopis 
William Butler Yeats rođen je 13. svibnja 1865. u Dublinu u Irskoj. Obitelj Yeats se 1867. privremeno seli u London, točnije u Bedford Park. Yeats ljeta provodi u Sligou, rodnom mjestu njegove majke, grofoviji na zapadnoj obali Irske, koja će sa svojim krajolikom, folklorom i starim legendama ostaviti dubok pečat na njegovim djelima. 1887. William se upisuje u školu Godolphin koju pohađa 4 godine. Yeats se svojim školskim uspjesima nije pretjerano isticao. Yeatsovi se potkraj 1880. ,iz financijski razloga, vraćaju u Dublin, ispočetka živeći u centru grada, a kasnije se sele u predgrađe Howth. U listopadu 1881. Yeats nastavlja svoje školovanje u  Erasmus Smith High School, koju pohađa do studenog 1883..

U svibnju 1884. Yeats se upisuje na Metropolitan School of Art (današnji National College of Art and Design) gdje upoznaje Georgea Russella.

Literatura 

 Cleeve, Brian (1972). W.B. Yeats and the Designing of Ireland's Coinage. New York: Dolmen Press. 
 Foster, R. F. (1997). W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage. New York: Oxford UP. 
 Foster, R. F. (2003). W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. II: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939. New York: Oxford UP. 
 Hone, Joseph (1943). W.B. Yeats, 1865–1939. New York: Macmillan Publishers. OCLC: 35607726
 Igoe, Vivien (1994). A Literary Guide to Dublin. Methuen Publishing. 
 Jordan Anthony J. (1997). Willie Yeats & The Gonne-MacBrides. Westport Books 
 Jordan Anthony J. (2000). The Yeats Gonne MacBride Triangle. Westport Books 
 Jordan Anthony J. (2003). W.B. Yeats Vain; Glorious; Lout. A Maker of Modern Ireland. Westport Books.  
 Jordan Anthony J. (2013). Arthur Griffith with James Joyce & WB Yeats - Liberating Ireland Westport Books. .
 Longenbach, James (1988). Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism. New York: Oxford UP. 
 O'Neill, Michael. (2003). Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Routledge. .
 Ryan, Philip B. (1998). The Lost Theatres of Dublin. Wiltshire: The Badger Press. 
 Yeats, W. B. (1994). The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. Wordsworth Poetry Library. 
 Yeats, W. B. (1900). "The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry", in Essays and Introductions, 1961. New York: Macmillan Publishers. OCLC 362823

Vanjske veze 

 The WB Yeats Society of NY
  Yeats Annual Poetry Prize for Australia 
 The National Library of Ireland's exhibition, Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats 
 
 The 1911 Census return lists W.B. Yeates (sic) and Lady Gregory boarding in South Frederick Street, Dublin
 Yeats' correspondence and other archival records  at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center
 Recordings of 24 lectures Donald Davie gave at Stanford in 1975 on W. B. Yeats

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