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Near this tower, in Coole Park, began the Irish Literary Revival. [5] Thoor Ballylee is also known today as Yeats's Tower, because in 1916 (or 1917) Yeats purchased the property for the nominal sum of £35 because he was so enchanted with it and especially as it was located in a rural area. [6]
Woodland path at Coole Park. The park was formerly the estate of the Gregory family. Coole House was built in the late 18th century for Robert Gregory: a three-storey house with a square porch and as principal rooms a dining room and drawing-room with bay windows facing out to Coole Lough and the Burren Hills, and a library in between them.
William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
Yeats, William Butler (2005), Kelly, John; Schuchard, Richard (eds.), The collected letters of W. B. Yeats, Oxford University Press; Brief History of Coole Park, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, archived from the original on 15 April 2013; Representing the Great War: Texts and Contexts (8th ed.), The Norton Anthology of English ...
William Butler Yeats "The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the Little Review, and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections The Wild Swans at Coole.
Coole House, Lady Gregory's home, served as a base for the Irish Literary Revival in the late 1800s and early 20th century. There is an "Autograph Tree", still there, that has the carved initials of some of her notable guests: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Seán O'Casey, Jack B. Yeats, John M. Synge, and Lady Margaret Sackville ...
First edition (1933) The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933.It was the next new volume after 1928's The Tower.The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, which is exceedingly rare.
Yeats changed the poem's title from "To a friend who has asked me to sign his manifesto to the neutral nations" to "A Reason for Keeping Silent" before sending it in a letter to James, which Yeats wrote at Coole Park on 20 August 1915. The poem was prefaced with a note stating: "It is the only thing I have written of the war or will write, so I ...