Yeats

American  

[yeyts] / yeɪts /

noun

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

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Yeats British  

/ jeɪts /

noun

1. Jack Butler. 1871–1957, Irish painter

2. 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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Other Word Forms

• Yeatsian adjective

Example Sentences

Yeats; in another he salutes Allen Ginsberg and other Beat poets; in a third he devotes the entirety of the piece to Arthur Rimbaud.

From The Wall Street Journal

Heaney grieves the violence, memorializing its complexity and horror in a poem that can stand with Yeats and Auden.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the poet William Butler Yeats observed after the end of the First World War, the center is not holding, while the best lack all conviction.

From Salon

They shared their love of poetry, books and classical music with their daughter, who was reading Yeats by kindergarten.

From Los Angeles Times

He has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats.

From BBC