PENSION FOR A POET
- LONDON, April 4. Mr Asquith has conferred a civil pension of £l5O per annum on Mr W. B. Yeats, the poet. Mr William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865. He was an art student for three years, but he forsook art for literature when 21 year® of age. His publications include the following The Wanderings of Oisin ” (1889), “ John Sherman ” (1891), “The Countess Kathleen”. (1892), “The Celtic Twilight” (1893), “The Poems of William Blake” (1893), “The Works of William Blake” (with E. J. -Ellis, 1893), “A Book of Irish Verse” (1895), Poems (1895), “The Secret Rose” (1897), “The Wind Among the Reeds” (1899), “The Shadowy Waters ” (1900), “ Cathleen ni Hoolihan ” (1902), “ Ideas of Good and Evil” (1903), “Where There is Nothing” (1903), “In the Seven Woods” (1905),. '‘Hour Glass and 'Other Plays” (1904), “ The King’s Threshold ” (1904), “ Deirdr©’’ (1907) collected edition of eight volumes (1908) y. , : -
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Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 25
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152PENSION FOR A POET Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 25
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