Yeats ESCRITOR MONTH

the irish writer William Butler Yeats is the writer of the month of December in the municipal library of Can Ventosa, in Ibiza. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, as a double recognition: politician, because it was just when I run the Irish Free State, and literary, because the Nobel committee said explicitly that the writer was able to express the spirit of a nation.

William Butler Yeats (Dublin, Ireland 1865 – Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France 1939). He was the son of the painter John Butler Yeats.. In the middle of the decade of 1880, Yeats was a student at Dublin's Metropolitan School of Art.. After the publication of his poems in the Dublin University Review the 1885, dropped out of art school to pursue other pursuits.

en 1887 moved to London with his family where he met the writers Oscar Wilde, Lionel Johnson y George Bernard Shaw. He also met Maud Gonne, a supporter of Irish independence, who was his muse for years and to whom he dedicated his drama of 1892, Countess Kathleen.

around this time, Yeats founded the Rhymers Club poetry group with Ernest Rhys. He also joined the Order of Golden Dawn, an organization that explored the themes of the occult and mysticism. Your interest in the history of your country, Ireland, especially its myths and legends, drove much of his work. The title The Adventures of Oisin and other poems (1889) is based on the story of a mythical Irish hero. He also wrote The Celtic Twilight (1893), the secret rose (1897) and the wind in the reeds (1899), based on irish legends. Great friend of the playwright Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory, founded with her the Irish National Theater in 1901. He also became a political figure in the new Irish Free State., feel senator during 6 years from 1922. Yeats represents half a century of intense literary production, not only poetic but also narrative and theatrical.

He continued writing until his death.. Some of his most important later works are Coole's Wild Swans (1917), Tower (1928) and The spiral ladder and other poems (1933). Yeats' greatest achievement was to free Irish culture from English molds., both in theme and in expression.

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