William B Yeats Contribution To Literature

1.0 Introduction
William B. Yeats is one of the pioneers of the literary world in 20th century. He was born on June 18, 1865 in County Dublin, Ireland. Hi parents were John Butler Yeats who was a lawyer turned portrait painter and Susan Mary Pollexfen the daughter of an affluent family from county Sligo. Yeats father trained as a lawyer but later shifted into arts after the birth of William. He was a supported the nationalist movement in the country. Through William’s visit to his rural area in Sligo he became with local stories about the Irish Heroes, Heroines and Magical Creatures. In later years he based his poetry and drama on the literature. Yeats published his fast poems - the Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems - in 1889 and plays such as The Countess Kathleen in 1892 and Deirdre in 1907. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature due to his immense contribution to literature.
1.1 Early life
Yeats had his first love, the actress Maud Goune who was a fairy Irish patriot. However, the actress refused to marry him but she became a great inspiration to Yeats finest lyrics and she deepened his commitment to Irish nationalism. In the 1880s he followed his own interest in art as a student at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. In 1889, Yeats, Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory and Edward Martyn initiated The Irish Literary Theatre that became a pioneer of Irish Literary Renaissance. He dedicated his 1892 drama ‘The Countess Kathleen’ to his love Maud Goune. He