{"id":1340,"date":"2015-06-07T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/?page_id=1340"},"modified":"2015-09-24T05:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T04:41:01","slug":"1340-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=1340","title":{"rendered":"William Butler Yeats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats<\/b> (\/<\/a><\/span>\u02c8<\/span><\/a><\/span>j<\/span><\/a><\/span>e\u026a<\/span><\/a><\/span>t<\/span><\/a><\/span>s<\/span><\/a><\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>; 13 June 1865\u00a0\u2013 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature<\/a>. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator<\/a> for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival<\/a> and, along with Lady Gregory<\/a>, and others, founded the\u00a0Abbey Theatre<\/a>, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a> as the first Irishman so honoured\u00a0for what the Nobel Committee<\/a> described as “inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.”<\/p>\n

Yeats grew up as a member of the former Protestant Ascendancy<\/a> at the time undergoing a crisis of identity. While his family was broadly supportive of the changes Ireland was experiencing, the nationalist revival of the late 19th century directly disadvantaged his heritage, and informed his outlook for the remainder of his life. In 1997, his biographer R. F. Foster<\/a> observed that Napoleon’s dictum that to understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty “is manifestly true of W.B.Y.”[13]<\/a><\/sup>Yeats’s childhood and young adulthood were shadowed by the power shift away from the minority Protestant Ascendancy. The 1880s saw the rise of Parnell<\/a> and the home rule<\/a>movement; the 1890s saw the momentum of nationalism, while the Catholics became prominent around the turn of the century. These developments had a profound effect on his poetry, and his subsequent explorations of Irish identity had a significant influence on the creation of his country’s biography.<\/p>\n

Anglo-Irish<\/b> (Irish<\/a>: Angla-\u00c9ireannach<\/i><\/span>) was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged\u00a0social class<\/a> in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy<\/a>.\u00a0They mostly belonged to the Anglican Church of Ireland<\/a>, which was the established church<\/a> of Ireland until 1871, or to a lesser extent one of the English dissenting<\/a> churches, such as the Methodist church<\/a>. Its members tended to follow English practices in matters of\u00a0culture<\/a>, science<\/a>, law<\/a>, agriculture<\/a> and politics<\/a>. Many became eminent as administrators in the British Empire<\/a> and as senior\u00a0army and naval officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The term is not usually applied to Presbyterians<\/a> in the province<\/a> of Ulster<\/a>, whose ancestry is mostly Scottish<\/a>, rather than English, and who are generally identified as “Ulster-Scots<\/a>.” In the United States, people who identify with the Ulster-Scots are usually called “Scotch-Irish<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Butler Yeats (\/\u02c8je\u026ats\/; 13 June 1865\u00a0\u2013 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the IrishContinue reading<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1340","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1340\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}