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	William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats The Second Coming...William Butler Yeats View Video
	WB Yeats - Byzantium Ernest Hilbert from the Ireland epsiode of E-Verse Radio of the classic William Butler Yeats poem Byzantuim....everse e-verse radio ernest hilbert yeats View Video
	William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree A reading of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by the Nobel Prize Winning author himself. I owe the images of the gyre to a website whose link will be at the end of the description. So if you would like a further explanation of the gyre and what the images mean go ahead and visit them. http://www.yeatsvision.com/Geometry.html View Video
	William Butler Yeats "Coole Park And Ballylee"Poem Animation William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865, the son of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo, where his parents were raised, and in London. He returned to Dublin at the age of fifteen to continue his education and study painting, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland's native heritage. Though Yeats never learned Gaelic himself, his writing at the turn of the century drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Also a potent influence on his poetry was the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, whom he met in 1889, a woman equally famous for her passionate nationalist politics and her beauty. Though she married another man in 1903 and grew apart from Yeats (and Yeats himself was eventually married to another woman, Georgie Hyde Lees), she remained a powerful figure in his poetry. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland, and in the twenties, despite Irish independence from England, his verse reflected a pessimism about the political situation in his country and the rest of Europe, paralleling the increasing conservativism of his American counterparts in London, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. His work after 1910 was strongly influenced by Pound, becoming more modern in its concision and imagery, but Yeats never abandoned his strict adherence to traditional verse forms. He had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult, which was off-putting to some readers, but he remained uninhibited in advancing his idiosyncratic philosophy, and his poetry continued to grow stronger as he grew older. Appointed a senator of the Irish Free State in 1922, he is remembered as an important cultural leader, as a major playwright (he was one of the founders of the famous Abbey Theatre in Dublin), and as one of the very greatest poets—in any language—of the century. W. B. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 at the age of 73. Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2008 Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931 William Butler Yeats Under my window-ledge the waters race, Otters below and moor-hens on the top, Run for a mile undimmed in Heaven's face Then darkening through 'dark' Raftery's 'cellar' drop, Run underground, rise in a rocky place In Coole demesne, and there to finish up Spread to a lake and drop into a hole. What's water but the generated soul? Upon the border of that lake's a wood Now all dry sticks under a wintry sun, And in a copse of beeches there I stood, For Nature's pulled her tragic buskin on And all the rant's a mirror of my mood: At sudden thunder of the mounting swan I turned about and looked where branches break The glittering reaches of the flooded lake. Another emblem there! That stormy white But seems a concentration of the sky; And, like the soul, it sails into the sight And in the morning's gone, no man knows why; And is so lovely that it sets to right What knowledge or its lack had set awry, So atrogantly pure, a child might think It can be murdered with a spot of ink. Sound of a stick upon the floor, a sound From somebody that toils from chair to chair; Beloved books that famous hands have bound, Old marble heads, old pictures everywhere; Great rooms where travelled men and children found Content or joy; a last inheritor Where none has reigned that lacked a name and fame Or out of folly into folly came. A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied. Where fashion or mere fantasy decrees We shift about - all that great glory spent - Like some poor Arab tribesman and his tent. We were the last romantics - chose for theme Traditional sanctity and loveliness; Whatever's written in what poets name The book of the people; whatever most can bless The mind of man or elevate a rhyme; But all is changed, that high horse riderless, Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood. View Video
	William Butler Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" Poem movie William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) stands at the turning point between the Victorian period and Modernism, the conflicting currents of which affected his poetry. Born in Dublin, Yeats' family moved to London when he was two and he lived there until he was sixteen. His mother's traditional Irish songs and stories and holiday visits to Co. Sligo kept the connection to Ireland strong. Yeats studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, his first collection of poetry being published in 1889. The Wanderings of Oisin and other poems already showed concerns that were to remain central to his writing - Ireland, spiritualism and love. His earliest books draw on the romantics and pre-Raphaelite ideals and mythologise a 'Celtic Twilight'. However, increased involvement with nationalist politics was to have a significant impact on his poetic style: his diction grew plainer, the syntax tighter and the verse structures, whilst retaining their traditional form, more muscular. To this middle period belongs his failed courtship of the beautiful nationalist, Maud Gonne and his founding in 1899 of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin which became a focus for many of the writers of the Irish Revival of which Yeats was a key figure. Yeats wrote prolifically for the stage but also continued with his poetry. Another important influence at this time was Modernism, Ezra Pound in particular, who introduced Yeats to the principles of Japanese Noh theatre. As events in Ireland began to take a bloody turn, Yeats' poems increasingly addressed public themes as in 'Easter 1916', his troubled commemoration of the Easter uprising. He entered official political life when he was elected to the Senate, the upper house of the new Free State, in 1922. His personal life was also changing: after a final rejection from Maud Gonne and then from her daughter, Yeats married Georgie Hyde Lees with whom he was very happy. Her interest in spiritualism echoed Yeats' and his explorations in this area informed some of his powerful visionary poems. Yeats' was now entering his poetic maturity in which he developed a symbolism to mediate between the demands of art and life. Later collections The Tower and The Winding Stair are often considered his best. His reputation by this time was secure - he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He died in France in 1939 and was buried in Drumcliffe Church, Co. Sligo as he'd requested. This recording, one of a handful he made for the BBC, dates from 1932. 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree', first published in his second collection The Rose, is an example of his early lyric style. Written in a yearning voice, the poem draws on one of Yeats' talismanic landscapes, that of Co. Sligo. He was prompted to write the poem in London where he felt exiled from the rural beauty he captures so brilliantly in the poem. In his autobiography Yeats identifies the poem as a significant one, "my first lyric with anything in its rhythm of my own music". It's a music that's proved popular ever since as Yeats concedes in the introduction to his reading, though he criticises his use of the archaism "arise and go" and the inversion of the final stanza, the kind of poetic flourishes he learned to banish from later work. The poem, written largely in hexameters, has a tranquil rhythm, something Yeats emphasises in his reading. This is somewhat at odds with more contemporary vocal styles which favour a more conversational tone, but Yeats' quavering incantation has a unique power of its own. Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2008 THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE By William Butler Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear the water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core. View Video
	Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: William Butler Yeats Poetry Course conducted by Michael Braziller with guest poet Eamon Grennan....philoctetes course poetry william butler yeats eamon grennan View Video
	"FURNACE" Directed by William Butler Movie Trailer Detective Michael Turner investigates mysterious deaths that occur in and around a maximum-security prison. What begins as just another suicide and murder case unfolds into a furious struggle to uncover the unexplainable while escaping death at the hands of a vengeful spirit unleashed within the prison walls. The film is directed by William Butler and stars Danny Trejo(Grindhouse), Ja Rule, Paul Wall, Kelly Stables(The Ring) Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk Down) and Michael Pare.(Bloodrayne) http://www.furnacethemovie.com/ View Video
	William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven...William Butler Yeats View Video
	"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats - Irish poet http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/greatirishpoets The great Irish poets CD- a collection of 32 Irish poems from 12 of the finest Irish Poets to have lived View Video
	William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats The Sorrow Of Love...William Butler Yeats View Video
	William Butler of the Arcade Fire climbing William Butler of Arcade Fire going apeshit. You can't really tell, but he was really high up in the air. Randall's Island 6 October 2007 View Video
	"September1913" by William Butler Yeats - Irish poet http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/greatirishpoets The great Irish poets CD- a collection of 32 Irish poems from 12 of the finest Irish Poets to have lived View Video
	William Butler Yeats "Song of the old Mother" Poem animation William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865, the son of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo, where his parents were raised, and in London. He returned to Dublin at the age of fifteen to continue his education and study painting, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland's native heritage. Though Yeats never learned Gaelic himself, his writing at the turn of the century drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Also a potent influence on his poetry was the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, whom he met in 1889, a woman equally famous for her passionate nationalist politics and her beauty. Though she married another man in 1903 and grew apart from Yeats (and Yeats himself was eventually married to another woman, Georgie Hyde Lees), she remained a powerful figure in his poetry. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland, and in the twenties, despite Irish independence from England, his verse reflected a pessimism about the political situation in his country and the rest of Europe, paralleling the increasing conservativism of his American counterparts in London, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. His work after 1910 was strongly influenced by Pound, becoming more modern in its concision and imagery, but Yeats never abandoned his strict adherence to traditional verse forms. He had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult, which was off-putting to some readers, but he remained uninhibited in advancing his idiosyncratic philosophy, and his poetry continued to grow stronger as he grew older. Appointed a senator of the Irish Free State in 1922, he is remembered as an important cultural leader, as a major playwright (he was one of the founders of the famous Abbey Theatre in Dublin), and as one of the very greatest poets—in any language—of the century. W. B. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 at the age of 73. Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2008 The Song of the old Mother W.B. Yeats (1865--1939) I RISE in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed Of the matching of ribbons for bosom and head, And their day goes over in idleness, And they sigh if the wind but lift a tress: While I must work because I am old, And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold. View Video
	win a date with William Butler what it would be like to date the late great Willbird...William Butler Date Crazy View Video
	William Butler This BSL signed video is part of a signed guide that Deaf visitors to Bantock House can use to enhance their visit to the house. This video talks about William Butler a prominent Wolverhampton business man in the 19th century. Content written by Susannah Stapleton for Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service. Videos produced by Zebra Uno. View Video
	Easter 1916 - William Butler Yeats "A terrible beauty is born" - has been one of my favourite lines since the time I was at college. However, I never really recorded my reading of the poem in which this line occurs, until recently. This is my second attempt at reading "Easter 1916", with a better microphone, which I think does justice to my voice. W B Yeats' poem is about a certain Irish uprising that changed Irish history utterly. This rebellion cost many lives, yet added beauty to the Irish character. View Video
	William Butler Yeats I'm in love...Grafezia View Video
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	Loreena McKennitt Barnes & Noble Stolen Child Yeats "Come away o human child to the waters and the wild, with a fairy hand in hand. For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand." Loreena harks back to her first album Elemental to sing the poem by William Butler Yeats which she set to music about the abduction of a child by water sprites to the land of elementals, the Fairy Kingdom. She accompanies herself on the synthesizer and is joined by Brian Hughes on guitar. Loreena founded the Cook-Rees foundation for Water Search and Safety after losing her fiancÃ© to a boating accident. Dec. 14, 2006 presenting and signing An Ancient Muse to a packed and enthralled audience. View Video
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	Easter Rising 1916 - A terrible beauty is born. We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead. And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse -- MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. -- William Butler Yeats. View Video
	How to print a poem - The Wild Swans at Coole Artists Wyllie O Hagan are inspired by the beauty of the Irish lakes. The Wild Swans at Coole, a poem by William Butler Yeats comes to mind when the beautiful and mysterious birds appear. In this short digital film the artist demonstrates how to print a poem, and what motivates her to do such a thing. Enjoy, and thank you for watching and commenting. Art prints by Wyllie O Hagan are for sale online from $12.99 http://www.artistrising.com/products/264760/Wild-Swans-at-Co ole.htm Harpist: Eve McTeleen Recording live by Wyllie O Hagan in Ireland, Summer 2007 http://www.evemctelenn.com/ Comment of the Week on YouTube: "What a beautiful blend of words music and image. My restless roving eye moused a thumbnail and came to rest in reeds with your bird. Just discerned and ghostly the swan roams freely between page and pond as your gentle voice carries me beyond to think of larger things in our troubled human world way beyond the slowly busy swan." Mike Rubbo, December 2007 Award Winning Film Director/Producer Australia http://www.mikerubbo.com/ YouTube Honours #1 - Recently Featured - Ireland #1 - Recently Featured - Howto & Style -- Ireland #1 - Most Viewed (Today) - Howto & Style - United Kingdom #1 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Howto & Style - United Kingdom #1 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Howto & Style - Ireland #1 - Top Favorites (Today) - Howto & Style - United Kingdom View Video
	Down by the Salley Gardens/Maureen Hegarty One of William Butler Yeats most famous poems published in 1889 and set to music by Herbert Hughes. I have included this song in my CD of Irish songs 'Ireland, Mother Ireland' View Video
	Tamaro - Down By The Salley Gardens Eigene Vertonung von (my musical version of): Down By The Salley Gardens; Text: William Butler Yeats; Musik, Instrumente, Gesang, Aufnahme, Bearbeitung: Tamaro; http://tabulator.spaces.live.com/ View Video

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