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Nobelist poet: 1923
Answer for the clue "Nobelist poet: 1923 ", 5 letters:
yeats
Alternative clues for the word yeats
- Irish poet, 1923 Nobel Prize winner
- Irish Renaissance leader
- "The Celtic Twilight" poet
- Irish poet of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
- "When You Are Old" poet
- Irish Nobelist in literature
- "In dreams begin responsibility" writer
- Irish Literary Theatre cofounder
- "Celtic Twilight" author
- "The Herne's Egg" playwright
Usage examples of yeats.
As a rule, this artificiality is accepted as Irishism, or Yeats is even credited with simplicity because he uses short words, but in fact one seldom comes on six consecutive lines of his verse in which there is not an archaism or an affected turn of speech.
The merely political Fascist claims always to be fighting for justice: Yeats, the poet, sees at a glance that Fascism means injustice, and acclaims it for that very reason.
Maud has left MacBride these several years, and Yeats still burns to win her.
Best of all had been the charcoal drawing of John Singer Sargent, sharp-featured yet with a sensitive mouth, looking passive but verging on a decisiveness Yeats seldom could rouse.
Pearse had let Yeats know that not all Irishmen had made that bargain.
Harry Joyce grinned at Yeats as Yeats pounded on the door with his rifle stock.
Doheny, the night editor asked, waiting patiently until Yeats had put down his pen.
His eyes met the black stare of a hard-featured, lean figure, erect in bearing and not the vainglorious lout Yeats wanted him to be.
His voice held a softer and even awed tone, one that Yeats had not heard before from the jailer.
A silly remark, Yeats thought, saved from fatuity only by the heaviness of the situation.
In the case of Yeats, there must be some kind of connexion between his wayward, even tortured style of writing and his rather sinister vision of life.
This does not matter, because, on the whole, Yeats gets away with it, and if his straining after effect is often irritating, it can also produce phrases ("the chill, footless years", "the mackerel-crowded seas") which suddenly overwhelm one like a girl's face seen across a room.
Mr Menon's book is incidentally a short biography of Yeats, but he is above all interested in Yeats's philosophical "system", which in his opinion supplies the subject-matter of more of Yeats's poems than is generally recognized.
Not much interested in politics, and no doubt disgusted by his brief incursions into public life, Yeats nevertheless makes political pronouncements.
Others who have made the same mistake have afterwards changed their views, and one ought not to assume that Yeats, if he had lived longer, would necessarily have followed his friend Pound, even in sympathy.