YEATS Definition & Meaning

Yeats

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noun

William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1923.

Yeats

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noun

YeatsJack Butler18711957MIrishARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Jack Butler. 1871–1957, Irish painter
YeatsW(illiam) B(utler)18651939MIrishWRITING: poetTHEATRE: dramatist his brother W ( illiam ) B ( utler ). 1865–1939, Irish poet and dramatist. His collections of verse include Responsibilities (1914), The Tower (1928), and The Winding Stair (1929). Among his plays are The Countess Cathleen (1892) and Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902); he was a founder of the Irish National Theatre Company at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1923

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In the words of the Yeats poem, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… Surely some revelation is at hand."

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As William Butler Yeats famously told us at another precarious moment in history, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer ... the centre cannot hold.”

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President Joe Biden slouched off to Bethlehem in his best William Butler Yeats fashion Wednesday night, speaking to the American people for the last time as president.

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It’s impossible to ignore Trump’s rise to the most famous poem in the English language, Yeats’s The Second Coming, looming over this moment in history, its prophetic lines reverberating with unsettling clarity.

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Legendary former Liverpool captain Ron Yeats has died at the age of 86.

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