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William Butler Yeats
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
- Child of John Butler Yeats and Susan Pollexfen
- Married to Georgie Hyde-Lees
- Dated 13 June 1865 CE – 28 January 1939 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Family
The family of William Butler Yeats
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 13
Family 13
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) John Butler Yeats Irish artist (1839-1922) - child of (mother) Susan Pollexfen Irish family matriarch
- parent of (child) Michael Yeats Irish politician and barrister (1921–2007)
- parent of (child) Anne Yeats Irish painter (1919-2001)
- partner of Margot Ruddock British actress, poet, singer
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partner of Maud Gonne Irish revolutionary and activist (1866-1953) -
partner of Olivia Shakespear British writer - sibling of Elizabeth Yeats Anglo-Irish book publisher
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sibling of Jack Butler Yeats Irish artist (1871-1957) - sibling of Jane Grace Yeats
- sibling of Lily Yeats Irish artist (1866–1949)
- sibling of Robert Corbet Yeats (27 Mar 1870 - certain 3 Mar 1873)
- married to Georgie Hyde-Lees wife of William Butler Yeats (1892–1968)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 1
William Butler Yeats Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939) Connections
How William Butler Yeats connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 11
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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was influenced by Augusta, Lady Gregory Irish playwright, poet, folklorist (1852-1932) -
was influenced by Dante Alighieri Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321) -
was influenced by Edmund Spenser English poet (c. 1552 – 1599) -
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was influenced by Emmanuel Swedenborg Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772) -
was influenced by Jakob Böhme German Christian mystic and theologian (1575-1624) -
was influenced by Oscar Wilde Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900) -
was influenced by Percy Bysshe Shelley British Romantic poet (1792–1822) -
was influenced by William Blake English poet and artist (1757–1827) -
was influenced by William Morris textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896)
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
25 statements on this record
- 14 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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