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Yeats, William Butler
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER
Yeats, William Butler
(1865–1939), born in Dublin, the eldest son of J. B. Yeats and brother of Jack Yeats, both celebrated painters. He studied at the School of Art in Dublin, where with a fellow student, G. Russell (Æ), he developed an interest in mystic religion and the supernatural. At 21 he abandoned art in favour of literature, writing John Sherman and Dhoya (1891) and editing The Poems of William Blake (1893), The Works of William Blake (with F. J. Ellis, 3 vols, 1893), and Poems of Spenser (1906). A nationalist, he applied himself to the creation of an Irish ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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