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Yeats
[ yeyts ]
noun
- William Butler, 1865鈥1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1923.
Yeats
/ 箩别瑟迟蝉 /
noun
- YeatsJack Butler18711957MIrishARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Jack Butler. 1871鈥1957, Irish painter
- YeatsW(illiam) B(utler)18651939MIrishWRITING: poetTHEATRE: dramatist his brother W ( illiam ) B ( utler ). 1865鈥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
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 驰别补迟蝉顎僫路补苍 adjective
Example Sentences
In the words of the Yeats poem, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world鈥 Surely some revelation is at hand."
As William Butler Yeats famously told us at another precarious moment in history, 鈥淭he falcon cannot hear the falconer ... the centre cannot hold.鈥
President Joe Biden slouched off to Bethlehem in his best William Butler Yeats fashion Wednesday night, speaking to the American people for the last time as president.
It鈥檚 impossible to ignore Trump鈥檚 rise to the most famous poem in the English language, Yeats鈥檚 The Second Coming, looming over this moment in history, its prophetic lines reverberating with unsettling clarity.
Legendary former Liverpool captain Ron Yeats has died at the age of 86.
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