Yeats biographical powerpoint rubric

Yeats biographical powerpoint rubric

Yeats 1865-1939 Biographical Information ► “William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist and one of the foremost figures of 20thcentury literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms.” ► “In 1923, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as ‘inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation;’ and he was the first Irishman so honoured.” SOURCE: <www.wikipedia.org> accessed on 30/06/09 Biographical Information ► Yeats also collaborated with Edwin Ellis on the first complete edition of William Blake’s poetry and writings.

► He maintained a life-long interest in mysticism, symbols and Irish mythology. ► Yeats was saddened and immensely moved by the tragedy of the Great War and the Irish Civil War. SOURCE: <www.wikipedia.org>