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Where There is Nothing, There is God: Short story from one of Irelands literary titans - W. B. Yeats

By W. B. Yeats

Release Date: 2025-05-25

Genre: Fiction

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William Butler Yeats was born on 13th June 1865 in Sandymount, Ireland to a family that historically had a passion for the arts.
At two his family moved to London to enable his elder siblings to pursue their artistic careers. Yeats went to the Godolphin School as well as receiving further instruction from his mother and his brother.

Back in Dublin in the early 1880s the teenager attended Erasmus Smith High School and then the National College of Art and Design. It was now that Yeats began his adventure with poetry and literature culminating in the 1889 publication of ‘The Wanderings of Oisin & Other Poems’.

In 1890, back in London Yeats was a founder member of The Rhymers Club, a group of bohemians based at the Cheshire Cheese Pub in Fleet St, and helped it receive a formidable reputation both in Decadent and Modernist poetry.

In the last years of the 19th Century his passion for theatre found him with other playwrights founding the Abbey Theatre, giving him a platform to perform his own experimental plays as well as by others to establish an Irish theatrical tradition.

By now his poetry was both refined and widely admired with verse such as ‘Easter, 1916’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ and ‘The Second Coming.’ In other genres his plays and his stories, many based on Irish folklore, found a growing audience and his works taken together clearly show his Irish Nationalism coming to the fore.

His handsome features and romantic nature led to many affairs but those he wanted including Katharine Tynan and Maud Gonne rejected him but kept him as a life-long friend. It was only in 1917, in his 50’s, that he married the much younger Georgie Hyde-Lees.

With Ireland now a free nation he was appointed to the first Irish Senate in 1922. The following year there came the recognition of the Nobel Prize in Literature with the citation "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

By the end of the decade several years of health problems had worn him down but after a radical new treatment he was seemingly back to his best.

William Butler Yeats died on 28th January 1939 in Menton, France. In accordance with his wishes: 'If I die, bury me up there and then in a year's time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo'.

Where There is Nothing, There is God: Short story from one of Irelands literary titans - W. B. Yeats

By W. B. Yeats

Release Date: 2025-05-25

Genre: Fiction

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
William Butler Yeats was born on 13th June 1865 in Sandymount, Ireland to a family that historically had a passion for the arts.
At two his family moved to London to enable his elder siblings to pursue their artistic careers. Yeats went to the Godolphin School as well as receiving further instruction from his mother and his brother.

Back in Dublin in the early 1880s the teenager attended Erasmus Smith High School and then the National College of Art and Design. It was now that Yeats began his adventure with poetry and literature culminating in the 1889 publication of ‘The Wanderings of Oisin & Other Poems’.

In 1890, back in London Yeats was a founder member of The Rhymers Club, a group of bohemians based at the Cheshire Cheese Pub in Fleet St, and helped it receive a formidable reputation both in Decadent and Modernist poetry.

In the last years of the 19th Century his passion for theatre found him with other playwrights founding the Abbey Theatre, giving him a platform to perform his own experimental plays as well as by others to establish an Irish theatrical tradition.

By now his poetry was both refined and widely admired with verse such as ‘Easter, 1916’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ and ‘The Second Coming.’ In other genres his plays and his stories, many based on Irish folklore, found a growing audience and his works taken together clearly show his Irish Nationalism coming to the fore.

His handsome features and romantic nature led to many affairs but those he wanted including Katharine Tynan and Maud Gonne rejected him but kept him as a life-long friend. It was only in 1917, in his 50’s, that he married the much younger Georgie Hyde-Lees.

With Ireland now a free nation he was appointed to the first Irish Senate in 1922. The following year there came the recognition of the Nobel Prize in Literature with the citation "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

By the end of the decade several years of health problems had worn him down but after a radical new treatment he was seemingly back to his best.

William Butler Yeats died on 28th January 1939 in Menton, France. In accordance with his wishes: 'If I die, bury me up there and then in a year's time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo'.

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