1. W. B. Yeats

2. The Wanderings of Oisin
Dublin
Anglo-Irish landowning class
Chaotic artistic family
Father portrait painter
London
His mother’s traditional Irish songs + stories, holidays
County Sligo
Aesthete at an early age, wrote verses, first published in 1889
The Wanderings of Oisin
MAUD GONNE

3. Y. devoted himself
IRISH REVIVAL
IRISH PATRIOTISM
seeking to develop a new religious iconography based on
IRISH
MYTHOLOGY
movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage

4. SPIRITUALISM
IRELAND
LOVE
Ezra Pound introduced him to the principles of Japanese theatre

5. ABBEY THEATRE Lady Gregory, playwright J. Singe Senator in 1922
SPIRITUALISM
Married Georgie Hyde Lees
Nobel Prize 1923
As a poet he reached full powers late in life and after reaching his height, he sustained it up until the very end, writing magnificent poems until two weeks before his death
THE WINDING STAIRS
THE TOWER
LAST POEMS

6. Victorian period Modernism
Y. straddles the 19 th. 20 th. centuries
He stands at the turning point
Victorian period
Modernism
He started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist

7. contemporary politics
His early poems were ODES to the beauty + mystery of Irish countryside
He shifted his focus from
Myth
Folklore to
contemporary politics

8. POLITICS
ART
Intrinsically linked + used his writings
to express his attitude towards Irish politics
to educate his readers about Irish cultural history
POEMS
POLITICAL EVENTS
critique
could both
comment on

9. His devotion to MYSTICISM led to the development of a unique spiritual and philosophical system that emphasized the role of fate and historical determinism
Spiritualism
the occult
Philosophy
demonstrate his profound interest in
the divine

10. He created a complex system of spirituality using the image of interlocking gyres
History
Fate
was determined by
fate revealed its plans in moments when
the human
the divine
interact