Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
by William Butler Yeats 
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After reading this I'm so impressed with WBY and his achievements. However, I'm still left wondering about his love affair with Maude Gonne; but those questions I have will likely remain unanswered; a mystery for the ages.
This book was part of my ODWG Readathon 2020. ODWG stands for Old Dead White Guys, the target of so much ire and irrationality in our current literary world. In spite of their horrible reputation, I find that ODWG's quite frequently have some very insightful and inspiring stories to tell, so I still read them. Not only do I read them, but these days I seek them out purposely. Why? For the same reason I embraced punk fashion in 1978: because I like to shock and upset the rigid little minds of the uptight, stodgy and show more hopelessly narrow minded dump-puppets.
Mind you, I'm not exclusively reading only ODWG works; I also read books written by women, living persons and authors of non-white ethnicity, However, they must be quality and catch my interest in some way; I'm not an identity-based reader. If you are an identity based reader and intend to scold me for not being more inclusive in my reading habits, I have a suggestion: grab a hammer and head for the nearest beach; proceed to use the hammer to pack sand up you ass until it's quite full, then fuck off and die. Also, keep in mind that your scolding will likely have the opposite effect and in 2021 I will read only ODWG works, so maybe just keep it to yourself and mind your own fucking business for once. show less
This book was part of my ODWG Readathon 2020. ODWG stands for Old Dead White Guys, the target of so much ire and irrationality in our current literary world. In spite of their horrible reputation, I find that ODWG's quite frequently have some very insightful and inspiring stories to tell, so I still read them. Not only do I read them, but these days I seek them out purposely. Why? For the same reason I embraced punk fashion in 1978: because I like to shock and upset the rigid little minds of the uptight, stodgy and show more hopelessly narrow minded dump-puppets.
Mind you, I'm not exclusively reading only ODWG works; I also read books written by women, living persons and authors of non-white ethnicity, However, they must be quality and catch my interest in some way; I'm not an identity-based reader. If you are an identity based reader and intend to scold me for not being more inclusive in my reading habits, I have a suggestion: grab a hammer and head for the nearest beach; proceed to use the hammer to pack sand up you ass until it's quite full, then fuck off and die. Also, keep in mind that your scolding will likely have the opposite effect and in 2021 I will read only ODWG works, so maybe just keep it to yourself and mind your own fucking business for once. show less
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William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 13, 1865. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief playwright until the movement was joined by John Synge. Yeats' plays included The Countess Cathleen, The Land of show more Heart's Desire, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The King's Threshold, and Deirdre. Although a convinced patriot, Yeats deplored the hatred and the bigotry of the Nationalist movement, and his poetry is full of moving protests against it. He was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." He is one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize. His poetry collections include The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer, The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, and Last Poems and Plays. He died on January 28, 1939 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
- Original publication date
- 1935
- Dedication
- To those few people mainly personal friends who have read all that I have written
-Reveries Over Childhood and Youth
To John Quinn my friend and helper and friend and helper of certain people mentioned in this book
-The Trembling of the Veil - First words
- My first memories are fragmentary and isolated and contemporaneous as though one remembered some first moments of the Seven Days.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I was in the South of France," he says, "and I could not get a room warm enough to work in, and if I cannot get a warm room here I will go to Lapland."
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