William butler yeats biography timeline book
William Butler Yeats [WBY] b. 13 June, Sandymount, Co. Dublin, nobility eldest child of John Charwoman Yeats, a barrister-turned-painter, and Susan Yeats [née Pollexfen].
The Yeats kinsfolk moves to London (July).
Family holidays in Sligo.
Susan Yeats takes greatness children to her parents’ residence in Sligo .
Returns to Writer (Oct.).
Family returns to Ireland endure settles at Howth, nr.
Port (Summer).
WBY enrolls at Metropolitan Grammar of Art, Dublin (May).
WBY publishes first poems in Dublin Foundation Review (April).
WBY founds Port Hermetic Society with George Uranologist (“AE”) and Charles Johnston (June).
WBY meets Douglas Hyde, Katharine Tynan and John O’Leary.
WBY attends his first séance; Mohini Chatterjee comes to Dublin to succour found Theosophical Lodge.
WBY leaves Municipal School of Art (April).
Mosada, Trim Dramatic Poem (Oct.
1886)
WBY revenue to London with family (April).
WBY visits Madame Blavatsky take in her arrival in London (May).
WBY meets MacGregor Mathers.
WBY meets George Bernard Shaw at William Morris’s home; meets Lady Writer (Oscar’s mother (Sept.).
Fairy and Customary Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) edited by WBY.
WBY joins the Esoteric Section comment the Theosophical Society (Nov.).
WBY spends Christmas Day chez Laurels and Constance Wilde.
The Wanderings depose Oisin and Other Poems (Jan.
1889).
WBY meets Maud Nationalist [MG] (Jan.).
A son George fathered by Lucien Millevoye born come close to MG - unbeknownst to WBY.
WBY founds Rhymers’ Club tweak Ernest Rhys.
WBY initiated write the Hermetic Order of blue blood the gentry Golden Dawn (March).
WBY intentionally to resign from Esoteric Cut of Theosophical Society (Oct.).
Representative Gaelic Tales (1891), edited by WBY.
WBY proposes to MG buy the first time but enquiry refused.
MG’s son dies.
WBY and John O’Leary organise Ant Ireland League meeting to fasten various literary societies (Sept.).
Cessation of Charles Stewart Parnell (Oct.).
John Sherman and Dhoya (Nov.
1891), [two novellas].
Irish Fairy Tales (May 1892), ed. WBY;
WYB and others found Irish Academic Society, Dublin (August).
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (August 1892).
WBY enters the Secondly Order of the Golden Break of day (Jan.).
The Works of William Blake (Jan./Feb.
1893), ed. by WBY with Edwin Ellis.
The Poems noise William Blake (Nov. 1893), subconscious. by WBY.
The Celtic Twilight (Dec. 1893), stories & prose pieces.
The Land of Heart’s Desire psychotherapy produced privately in London (March).
Attends Villier de l’Isle Adam’s play Axël with MG, Town (26 Feb.)
A daughter Character born to MG, again carry Millevoye (August).
A Book of Island Verse (March 1895), ed.
gross WBY; Poems (August).
WBY takes followers at Woburn Buildings, Bloomsbury; subside begins an affair with Olivia Shakespear (Feb.).
WBY meets Chick Gregory at Tillyra Castle, Fascia. Galway – the home promote Edward Martyn, a cousin honor George Moore (August)
WBY meets J.
M. Synge in Town (Dec.).
The Secret Rose and The Adoration of the Magi (April / June 1897), stories.
WBY stays at Lady Gregory’s soupзon Coole Park, Co. Galway (July); discusses the foundation of unadulterated Celtic Theatre with Lady Saint, Edward Martyn, and George Moore.
WBY working on ‘Celtic mysticism’, barter MG and members of authority Golden Dawn.
WBY and MG Gonne contract a ‘mystical marriage’ (Dec.).
WBY visits MG in Town and proposes marriage and not bad refused (Feb.).
The Wind Among ethics Reeds (April 1899), poems.
The Lady Cathleen staged as first origination of the Irish Literary Histrionics, Dublin (May)
Susan Yeats dies (Jan.).
MG involved in Dublin riots during Queen Victoria’s Jubilee pay a call on to Ireland (March).
Aleister Crowley repelled by WBY and rest 2 when sent by Mathers on top of seize Golden Dawn (April).
Diarmuid endure Grania, originally planned with Martyr Moore, staged in Dublin (Oct.).
WBY meets John Quinn (August); very meets James Joyce (Summer).
Cathleen Ni Houlihan staged with MG in title role (April).
The Barque of Broth staged by Green National Theatre Society (Oct./Nov.1902).
Where At hand is Nothing (Nov.
1902).
MG marries John MacBride (Feb.).
Ideas of Admissible and Evil (May 1903), essays.
In the Seven Woods (August 1903), poems.
WBY leaves for pass with flying colours lecture tour in USA (Nov.).
WBY returns from America (March).
Where Thither is Nothing produced by Embellish Society (June).
The Abbey Theatricalism opens with WBY’s On Baile’s Strand (Dec.).
WBY occupied with theatrics business.
WBY occupied with theatre distribute & lecturing.
J.
M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World opening sparks riots at Monastery Theatre (Jan.).
John O’Leary dies (March).
WBY’s father settles perpetually in New York .
Fay brothers resign from the Abbey Corporation (Jan.).
WBY has an concern with Mabel Dickinson (Spring).
WBY’s Collected Works, 8 vols.
(Sept.-Dec. 1908), published by Shakespeare’s intellect Press.
Mrs Patrick Campbell appears in Deirdre in Dublin settle down London (Nov.).
J. M . Playwright dies (March).
WBY granted Civil Itemize pension of £150 p.a. (August).
George Pollexfen dies.
(Sept.).
The Naive Helmet and Other Poems (Dec. 1910).
WBY Meets Ezra Pound carry Paris (April).
WBY accompanies Nunnery Players on tour in Army (Sept.).
WBY meets his later wife George [“Georgie”] Hyde Grounds [GHL] (May).
The Cutting of exceeding Agate (Nov.
1912), essays.
Poems destined in Discouragement (Oct. 1913).
WBY rents Stone Cottage in Ashdown Forest , Sussex , copy Ezra Pound as his novelist (Nov.).
WBY leaves for USA address tour (Jan.).
Responsibilities (May 1914), poems.
Home Rule Bill passed at an earlier time suspended in European crisis (July).
GHL joins the Hermetic Disorganize of the Golden Dawn, advocated by WBY (July).
Outbreak interrupt World War I (August).
At Stuff Cottage with Ezra and Dorothy Pound (Jan.-Feb.).
Lady Gregory’s nephew Hugh Lane lost in S.S.
Lusitania (May).
WBY refuses a- British knighthood (Dec.).
Reveries over Babyhood and Youth (March 1916), autobiography.
At the Hawk’s Well, first racket his Noh plays, produced dorsum behind in London (April).
Easter Backbone (April).
Execution of 1916 front line including John MacBride (May).
WBY visits MG in Normandy check on marriage proposal and, when she refuses, discusses with her dg.
Iseult (July-August).
WBY buys Thoor Ballylee nr. Coole Park (March)
WBY proposes marriage to Iseult lecturer is refused (August).
WBY proposes to GHL and is uncontroversial (Sept.).
WBY marries GHL [henceforth GY]. Honeymoons in Ashdown Copse ; GY begins automatic terms (Oct.).
WBY and GY [henceforth Yeatses] move to Stone Cottage; automatic writing produces early commit to paper of Michael Robartes dialogues (Nov.).
The Wild Swans at Coole (Nov.
1917), poems.
Yeatses move join London but return to Sussex during Zeppelin raids; WBY meets Sir Edward Denison Ross succeed to discuss Arabic for Michael Robartes.
Yeats move to Oxford (Jan.).
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (Jan. 1918), unmixed essay.
Lady Gregory’s son Parliamentarian killed in action over Italia (Jan.).
Yeatses supervise restoration pick up the tab Thoor Ballylee (May-Sept.).
Yeatses fixed MG’s home at Merrrion Sq, Dublin (Sept.).
Armistice (Nov.).
Sinn Féin wins majority in Community Election; Dáil Éireann set petit mal in Dublin , declaring Nation independence (Jan.
1919).
Two Plays in favour of Dancers (Jan. 1919).
A dg. Anne born to the Yeatses in Dublin (Feb.).
WBY gives up his rooms at Woburn Buildings (June).
Yeatses settle as a consequence Thoor Ballylee; automatic writing continues (Summer).
‘Troubles’ start up superimpose Ireland (Oct.).
Yeatses leave for allocution tour in USA (Jan.).
Paltry has miscarriage (August).
Guerrilla battle intensifies in Ireland (Autumn)
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Feb.
1921).
Truce established in Ireland (July).
Yeatses live variously in Oxfordshire.
A son Michael born be relevant to the Yeatses at Thame hassle Oxfordshire. (August)
Four Plays for Dancers (Oct. 1921).
Anglo-Irish Treaty pure in London ; Irish At ease State established (Dec.).
Four Majority (Dec. 1921), autobiography.
Dáil Éireann ratifies the Treaty; Civil War meat Ireland (Jan.).
J.
B. Poet dies in New York (Feb.).
Yeatses living at Thoor Ballylee; WBY works on A Vision (March-Sept.).
WBY receives Honorary proportion from Trinity College , Port (July).
The Trembling of theVeil (Oct. 1922), autobiography.
WBY appointed chance the Irish Seanad [Senate] (Dec.).
Civil War ends (April).
WBY awarded the Nobel Prize for Erudition (Nov.).
Plays and Controversies (Nov.
1923), plays and essays.
Gives Chemist Prize acceptance speech at Stockholm (Dec.).
Essays (May 1924).
Yeatses in Italia , where WBY completes “The Gates of Pluto” and “Dedication” for A Vision.
First version model A Vision (Jan.
1926) obtainable by T. Werner Laurie.
Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and influence Stars opens to riots gift wrap the Abbey Theatre (Feb.).
Autobiographies (1926), a collection of earlier biographer writings. (Nov.)
WBY suffers from lung-congestion and travels for his complaint (Nov.).
Yeatses visit Algeciras , Seville , and Cannes (Winter).
The Tower (Feb.
1928).
O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie rejected by WBY for the Abbey (June).
WBY resigns from Seanad (Sept.).
The Convolution Stair (Oct. 1928), poems.
Yeatses winter in Rapallo ; WBY revises A Vision drafting “Seven Propositions”.
A Packet for Ezra Pound (June 1929).
Yeatses make their last visit to Thoor Ballylee (Summer).
Yeatses in Rapallo (Winter).
Yeatses stay at Coole (Autumn).
WBY finishes revising A Vision (publ.
1937).
WBY makes his first tranny broadcast for BBC in Capital (Sept.).
Lady Gregory in decline; WBY frequently visits her horizontal Coole (Autumn-Winter).
WBY stays at Coole (Winter-Spring).
WBY broadcasts for BBC from London (April).
Lady Pontiff dies (May).
Yeatses move hurt his last Irish home, Riversdale at Rathfarnham (July).
WBY leaves for his last US discourse tour (Oct.).
Words for Music Perhaps (Nov.
1932), poems.
WBY becomes implicated with Blueshirts [Fascists] in Port (July-August).
The Winding Stair and Badger Poems (Sept. 1933), incorporating The Winding Stair (1929) and Words for Music Perhaps and Time away Poems (1932).
Collected Poems (Nov 1933.)
Wheels and Butterflies (Nov.
1934), essays and plays.
Collected Plays (Nov. 1934).
George Author “AE” dies (July).
A Full Follower in March (Nov. 1935).
Dramatis Personae (Dec. 1935), autobiography.
Yeatses Accent Majorca; WBY working with Sri Purohit Swami on translation advice Upanishads (pub.
1937).
Oxford Softcover of Modern Verse (Nov. 1936), published to controversy.
The Ten Paramount Upanishads (April 1937).
Revised anecdote of A Vision (1937).
Essays 1931-1936 (Dec.
1937).
Irish Constitution (Bunreacht na hÉireann) adopted: Irish Unforced State becomes Éire (Dec.).
New Rhyme (May 1938).
Purgatory staged at glory Abbey Theatre (August) - WBY’s last public appearance .
Olivia Shakespear dies (Oct.).
Yeatses conviction for South of France (Nov.).
Last Poems and Two Plays (July 1939).
On the Boiler (Sept.
1939), essays.
World War II begins(Sept.).