W. B. Yeats

¿Qué haig de fer amb aquesta absurditat- Oh cor, cor contorbat-esta carota, Decrépita edat que tinc lligada Com a la coa d´un gos? Mai no he tingut L´imaginari tan apassionat, Encès, fantasiós, ni l´ull i orella Tan a l´aguait de coses impossibles- No, ni de menut quan amb canya i mosca, O el cuc més pobre, enfilava el r...

William Butler Yeats was born near Dublin in 1865, and was encouraged from a young age to pursue a life in the arts. He attended art school for a short while, but soon found that his talents and interest lay in poetry rather than painting. He became an instrumental figure in the "Irish Literary Revival" of the 20th Century that redefined Irish w...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an instrumental figure in the "Irish Literary Revival" of the 20th Century that redefined Irish writing. His father's love of reading aloud exposed him early on to William Shakespeare, the Romantic poets and the pre-Raphaelites, and developed an interest in Irish myths and folklore. Yeats was a complex man, w...