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15 January A Vision delivered to subscribers.
Estrangement
Autobi ographies
1927 October Blast
November Visits Algeciras, Seville, and Cannes.
1928 The Tower
Sophocles' King Oedipus
The Death of Synge
Resigns from the Senate.
Winters in Rapallo.
1929 A Packet for Ezra Pound
The Winding Stair
Decemberearly 1930 Suffers Malta fever in Rapallo.
1930 Meets Virginia Woolf and Walter de la Mare.
17 November The Words upon the Window Pane produced at the
Abbey.
1931 Receives honorary degree from Oxford.
Arranges an Edition de Luxe with Macmillan, London.
1932 Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends
22 May Death of Lady Gregory.
Moves to Rathfarnam, Dublin.
Words for Music Perhaps
OctoberJanuary American lecture tour.
1933 The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
1934 Letters to the New Island
April Undergoes Steinach operation in London.
Wheels and Butterflies
The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats
The King of the Great Clock Tower
1935 17 July Death of George Russell (AE).
A Full Moon in March
Dramatis Personae
Arranges for the Dublin Edition with Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York.
1936 January Illness in Majorca.
Edits The Oxford Book of Modern Verse.
1937 Revised edition of A Vision.
Essays, 19311936
Writes Introductions for Scribner Edition.
29 December New constitution for E ire comes into effect.
1938 The Herne's Egg
New Poems
10 August Purgatory produced at the Abbey Theatre.
Death of Olivia Shakespear.
1939 28 January Dies and is buried at Roquebrune, France.
Last Poems and Two Plays
On the Boiler
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(An Extract from "W. B. Yeats and the Murder of Honour Bright"
by Patricia Hughes
ISBN 0-9550978-2-7
The Poetry of William
Some time back, I attended a wedding ceremony where the groom read W.B.Yeat's well-known poem "When You Are Old" to the bride,
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on the 13th of June 1865, he was the son of John Butler Yeats a barrister turned
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