William Yates

GPTKB entity

Properties (45)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Trinity_College_Dublin
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Abbey_Theatre
gptkb:Irish_Literary_Revival
Theosophy
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
gptkbp:birthDate 1865-06-13
gptkbp:bornIn gptkb:Sandymount,_Dublin,_Ireland
gptkbp:children gptkb:Anne_Yeats
gptkb:Michael_Yeats
gptkbp:deathDate 1939-01-28
gptkbp:diedIn Roquebrune-Cap-Martin,_France
gptkbp:famousQuote “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
“I have looked on beauty bare.”
“The peace of the world is in the hands of the poets.”
“Education_is_not_the_filling_of_a_pail,_but_the_lighting_of_a_fire.”
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:William_Butler_Yeats
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label William Yates
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:W.B._Yeats
gptkb:Ted_Hughes
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Seamus_Heaney
gptkb:Ezra_Pound
gptkb:Sylvia_Plath
gptkb:Dylan_Thomas
gptkb:Philip_Larkin
gptkb:T.S._Eliot
gptkb:Robert_Frost
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:John_Keats
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkb:William_Blake
gptkbp:knownFor Modernism
Symbolism
gptkbp:language English
Irish
gptkbp:nationality Irish
gptkbp:notableWork The Second Coming
The Tower
Sailing to Byzantium
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Poet
Playwright
Politician
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Roquebrune-Cap-Martin_Cemetery
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Georgie_Hyde-Lees