YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. - Irish poet, b. in Dublin on 13 March 1865, d. at Roquebrune Cap Martin on 29 Jan. 1939.
His father, a Protestant Irishman, was a painter, and the young Y. too studied painting for three years, but he soon abandoned it for literature, and although he spent the formative years of his life in London, joining the aesthetic movement, he nevertheless drew largely, already in his first books of poetry, from the folklore of his native Ireland. His experiences of life and culture were very complex. He led the movement of the "Irish Literary Revival" and, although he took no active part in politics, he embraced the cause of Irish nationalism. Alongside Lady Gregory he founded the "Irish National Theatre Society," although the dramas he composed do not stand out for properly dramatic quality; on the contrary, alongside the influences of Maeterlinck's symbolist theatre, they manifest the fundamental lyricism of his inspiration. Other influences he derived from Blake, of whose work
YANGCHOW. APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE of - Fr. Francis A. Rouleau, S. J., of Bellarmine College in Baguio City, in the Philippines, points to the rubbing of the tombstone on which the image of the Madonna is engraved at the top. Here is the text of the inscription: ♣ In nomine Domini Amen. Hic jacet / Katerina filja q(uo)ndam domini / Domini di Viljonia que obit in / anno Domini milesimo CCC / XXXXII de mense Junii ♣.
he edited an edition (1803), from Mallarmé and in general from the French symbolists, directly and indirectly through their interpreter, Arthur Symons. Nor should the contribution of Shelley, of Keats, of Spencer and of Morris be forgotten, especially in his youthful verses. More complex were the esoteric experiences of his more mature years and of old age: astrology, philosophy, spiritualism, hermetic writings, Oriental philosophies, which the poet in part recounted in his autobiographical writings, where an obscure symbology often recurs and allusion is made to a perpetual conflict between being and becoming. The poems of his old age contain verses of rare beauty, although sensual and almost brutal touches abound in them. At the same time his work took on an increasingly pessimistic and apocalyptic tone. In one of his poems, The Second Coming, exasperated and almost blasphemous, one seems to read a dark foreboding of the Second World War. Y. won the Nobel Prize for poetry in 1923.
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