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Yeats (disambiguation)

W. B. Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright.

Yeats may also refer to:

  • Yeats (surname), various people
  • Yeats (crater), an impact crater on Mercury
  • Yeats (horse), an Irish thoroughbred racehorse
Yeats (horse)

Yeats is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who won seven Group One (G1) races and is the only horse ever to win the Ascot Gold Cup four times in succession.

Yeats (crater)

Yeats is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 100 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 9.2°N, 34.6°W, south of the crater Li Po and southwest of the crater Sinan. Its rim is circular and intact, except where an indentation is made by a craterlet on the north side. It is bordered by a smaller, unnamed crater to the northwest. On the otherwise featureless crater floor is a small, central mountain. The crater is named after William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet and dramatist. The name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.

Yeats (surname)

Yeats is a family name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Anne Yeats (1919–2001), Irish painter and stage designer
  • Elizabeth Yeats (1868–1940), Irish printer and manager of the Dun Emer Press and the Cuala Press
  • Francis Yeats-Brown (1886–1944), British author of The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • Graeme Yeats (born 1964), Australian rules footballer
  • Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), Irish painter, stage designer, and writer
  • John Butler Yeats (1839–1922), Irish artist and portrait painter
  • Lily Yeats (1866–1949), Irish embroiderer active in the Arts and Crafts movement
  • Matthew Yeats (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
  • Michael Yeats (1921–2007), Irish politician
  • Montague Yeats-Brown (1834-1921), British consul in Genoa and Boston
  • Ron Yeats (born 1937), Scottish footballer, captain of Liverpool F.C.
  • William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), an Irish poet and 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.