Biography of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born at sandymount near Dublin Ireland on June 13 1865. His father John Butler it's was a man of strong opinion. he was educated for the church but while still an undergraduate lost faith in Christianity practiced as a barrister for some time and then become a painter. His mother came from the well-to-do family of the Polixfens who lived at sligo in the West at Ireland.
His father constantly move between doubling in London. He left his children in their maternal grandparents at sligo where its past much of his early boyhood. He was of and lovely and unhappy but he love passionately The hills, river, lakes at Sligo. The appears and reappears in his poetry. And from its nature background, when he was eight aur nine year old his father read out to him " the lays of ancient rime" Ivanhoe and lay of the last ministerial and the boy best to turn a magician. His interest in magic dates from their time.
In 1875 at the age of 10 its was sent to to Godolphin School. He often thought of Sligo, and fail to to concentrate on his study. They returned to Ireland in 1880. It's did not benefit much from his schooling. but he read the book which his father gave him Balzac, Shakespeare, Shelly, Keats, Byron, and the prerephaelitces and was deeply influenced by his reading. It was at school that were waiting at sex came upon him like the the bursting of of shell. He experienced a a hopeless person for red hair head. cousin Laura Johnson who was already engaged to another while still at the art School, he began to write poetry in imitation of Shelley and Spencer. His father exalted dramatic poetry and so it's wrote play after play with fantastic and incoherent.
The Yeats family return to London in 1887 and a set up a house in in Bedford Park London. He now joined at young Ireland society and was inspired to devote himself to the patriotic retreating past of Ireland. It was John O' Leary who introduced him to Maud Gonne in 1888. The poet only age 23 at the time fail in love with her. The influence of Maud Gonnei helped the poet to leave dreamy Tvory tower and come closer to life and reality.
The rhymer's club was founded in 1891 in London and its took active parts along with author Symons Johnson. In 1896 Yeats met lady Gregory and The dramatist Jm Synge who came to exercise a lasting influence on his life and poetry.
The year 1916 is of great significant in the life and career of. Its refused night food offered by bhai the British government. Maud Gomez's husband from whom she had separated was among those who were hang. She was in France at the time. Yeats went to France and propose to her again and watch refuse as usual then he proposed to her adopted daughter. Insult and was refused by her also. Then the same year 1917 he married Georgie Hyde's Lees. Whom he had known for. He had, a boy and a girl. He was preparing his life and gaining Fame and recognization in 1922, he was elected a Semester of the ares free States. He was awarded for Nobel prize for literature in 1923. During 1927 to 1928 it's fail seriously ill with congestion of the lungs. The first at tuber. Clossis were visible. He died in france in January 1939.his body was brought back to Ireland and buried according to his on wishes in Drumcliff Church yard. His mind remained remarkably alive up to the very early.
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