Yeats
noun
William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1923.
Yeatsian
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a word derived from
Yeats.
Example Sentences
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He’s anthologized by more of his mid-fifties, Yeatsian formal poems.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2019
He always liked poetry at school and even wrote some: "soft Celtic twilights, Yeatsian wind among the reeds sort of thing".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2013
But in place of the popular Byzantium, a Yeatsian reverie of “hammered gold and gold enameling,” the show offers a soothing picture of artistic continuity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2012
“For Jack, there was the Yeatsian beauty of the rider-less horse with the boots on backwards and the beautiful Kennedy family,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Auden's way was very different, circumspect; his poetry achieved greatness but never reached out for Yeatsian grandeur.
From Time Magazine Archive
