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Rhymers' Club [ edit ]. His early works, particularly, are steeped in references to the Sidhe fairy folk , Irish heroes, and the otherworldly landscapes of his beloved Sligo. II, — , Chicago Modern Poetry Association. Soon after William's birth, the family relocated to the Pollexfen home at Merville, Sligo, to stay with her extended family, and the young poet came to think of the area as his childhood and spiritual home.

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He did not distinguish himself academically, and an early school report describes his performance as "only fair. Yeats was an Irish nationalist , who sought a kind of traditional lifestyle articulated through poems such as 'The Fisherman'. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival , and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre , serving as its chief during its early years.

Reason , February Oxford University Press, , p. The mist-drops hung on the fragrant trees, And in the blossoms hung the bees. Cambridge University Press, , pp. His body had earlier been exhumed and transferred to the ossuary. He chose words and assembled them so that, in addition to a particular meaning, they suggest abstract thoughts that may seem more significant and resonant.

William's mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen , from Sligo , came from a wealthy merchant family, who owned a milling and shipping business.

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The long title poem contains, in the words of his biographer R. Yeats, Autobiographies , p. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. The Tower , The Winding Stair , and New Poems contained some of the most potent images in 20th-century poetry. Irish poet and playwright — Tools Tools. At first, the Yeats children were educated at home. Some of his most famous short poems include:.

During this period he started writing poetry, and, in , the Dublin University Review published Yeats's first poems, as well as an essay entitled "The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ". Oxford University Press, , pp. Yeats continued to write until his death. Retrieved 7 December