Yeats

American  

[yayts] / jeɪts /

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

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Yeats

Yeats and Wallace Stevens, wrote splendidly till the end, but they are exceptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Andy Halliday then blasted the Bantams ahead before Mark Yeats slotted a fourth to inflict a shock defeat on Jose Mourinho's side.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

Yeats, in 1963; later works include well-regarded studies of Wallace Stevens and John Keats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

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 ● Nov. 10, 2025

I’m enclosing a poem by Auden on the death of Yeats cut out from an old London Mercury from last year.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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