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It's not exactly the
lake isle of Innisfree, but it will have to do!
I'm creating this site for a graduate class in Victorian poetry at the University of Texas. There are tons of webpages dedicated to William Butler Yeats (pronounced "Yates," to rhyme with "crates"). This one takes a different approach, however, focusing on the Pre-Raphaelite tendencies in Yeats's Victorian-era poetry (read: the poetry before 1901). Yeats's father, a painter, was influenced by this movement, and the poet himself greatly admired Pre-Raphaelite illustrator William Morris and believed that this school of art could save an artist from artificiality.
I'm creating this site for a graduate class in Victorian poetry at the University of Texas. There are tons of webpages dedicated to William Butler Yeats (pronounced "Yates," to rhyme with "crates"). This one takes a different approach, however, focusing on the Pre-Raphaelite tendencies in Yeats's Victorian-era poetry (read: the poetry before 1901). Yeats's father, a painter, was influenced by this movement, and the poet himself greatly admired Pre-Raphaelite illustrator William Morris and believed that this school of art could save an artist from artificiality.
This is a teaching site--as you browse, you'll discover
not only the full texts of Yeats's early poems (at least, the ones I've
gotten to so far), but also some of the
resources necessary to interpret what these poems mean (one
interpretation, at any rate). Click on the "How to use this page" link
above to learn more, or look around and figure it out for yourself.
Finally, this site is still very much under construction. I welcome your comments and critiques.
The above photograph of William Butler Yeats was taken by Alvin Langdon Coburn. It's the frontispiece from Yeats's second series of poems, published in 1909.
Information on this page comes from:
Yeats, William Butler. The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats (Consisting of Reveries over Childhood and Youth, The Trembling of the Veil, and Dramatis Personae). Garden City: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958.
Finally, this site is still very much under construction. I welcome your comments and critiques.
The above photograph of William Butler Yeats was taken by Alvin Langdon Coburn. It's the frontispiece from Yeats's second series of poems, published in 1909.
Information on this page comes from:
Yeats, William Butler. The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats (Consisting of Reveries over Childhood and Youth, The Trembling of the Veil, and Dramatis Personae). Garden City: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958.