W.B. Yeats

The son of an Irish Protestant barrister who renounced the law to be a painter, Yeats had his father's sympathy when he chose to pursue a career as a writer (his younger brother followed his fathers footsteps as a painter); the idea was accepted as legitimate if unlikely to make him rich. Yeats was an engaging and talented man whose poetry and plays soon gained him in a place in literary circles in Ireland and Britain.
Release
2002  
Minutes
33  
Grade Level
S,C  
Format
DVD  
The son of an Irish Protestant barrister who renounced the law to be a painter, Yeats had his father's sympathy when he chose to pursue a career as a writer (his younger brother followed his fathers footsteps as a painter); the idea was accepted as legitimate if unlikely to make him rich. Yeats was an engaging and talented man whose poetry and plays soon gained him in a place in literary circles in Ireland and Britain. He toured the US giving lectures on poetry. He also was instumental in setting up serious theater in Dublin, helping found the famous Abbey Theatre. The newly independent Ireland of the 1920s elected him a seat in the famous Abbey Theatre. The newly independent Ireland of the 1920s elected him a senator and he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He continued writing powerful and often dazzling poetry until his death.

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