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Today is the centenary of the death of #JohnButlerYeats, who passed away on 3 Feb 1922. The painter was born in Tullylish, Co. Down. Father to William, Jack, Lily and Lolly #Yeats.
You can explore many of his sketches and letters in our online catalogue: https://t.co/pkrHa0NcAc
'Neath Ben Bulben's buttocks lies Bill Yeats, a poet twice the soize of Wm. Wordsworth, as they say down Ballbillwuchlin way: Let saxon roiders brreak their bones, huntin' the fox thru' dese grave-stones'.
Ezra Pound.
Red Hanrahan / Jack B. Yeats.
#Otd 1939: Death in Menton, S France of #Dublin & #Sligo's WB Yeats. Poet! @NobelPrize Lit! Co-founded @AbbeyTheatre. Senator of Irish Free State 2 terms. 🪦@DrumcliffeCOI since 1948. Epitaph from last lines of "Under Ben Bulben". https://t.co/tmjey1APcq https://t.co/qfG8qwJsqi
'...ten miles from Dublin, there is a fairies path, whereon a great colony of other-world creatures travel nightly from the hill to the sea and home again.'
-William Butler Yeats
🎨John Anster Fitzgerald
#WyrdWednesday
"Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame."
✍️ William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
🎨 Igor Shulman "New Skirt", 2017
“Come fairies, take me out of this dull world. For I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
-W.B Yeats, The Land Of Heart's Desire
#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash #BookTwitter
This is the John Singer Sargent portrait that W. B. Yeats preferred to the Augustus John picture.
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
~ W. B. Yeats
The making and eclectic background of W. B. Yeats on Quotomania ▶️
https://t.co/SW18Vlu94j
🎨 Jack B. Yeats, Driftwood in a Cave. 1948
Seasonal greeting cards with delicate hand colouring printed in the early years of the Churchtown based Cuala Press, established in 1908.
The drawings, depicting a Christmas mantelpiece and a moment of levitation over an Irish landscape are by Mary Cottenham, 'Cottie' Yeats.
#憂モリプラス
*アルバートx夢主(顔、名前あり)
*The rose in the deeps of his heart
*トレス素材を使っています
*14歳の兄様とベリーちゃん、二人の初めての舞踏会ですー
For my dreams of your image that blossoms,
a rose in the deeps of my heart.
<William Butler Yeats>
'But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful'
(W.B. Yeats, 'The Wild Swans at Coole)
Swans by the #Oxford canal, glowing in the evening light.
Borrowing Trouble, a near-future murder mystery set in a mining camp on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, is a cautionary tale of climate change migrants intertwined with the mythic world of W. B. Yeats & the shadow kingdom of the Sidhe. #SFF #Scifibooks https://t.co/JHojpdGskH
A Welcome (1945) /Jack B. Yeats.
Formerly owned by bookseller publisher Maurice Fridberg.
Excellent note here on his short-lived Hour-Glass Library featuring Frank O'Connor's banned translation of Merriman's Midnight Court (1945).
https://t.co/2w0CxmgbIF https://t.co/asl3sapPdh
Details of a watercolor by Irish actor, writer, and artist, Micheál Mac Liammóir (1899-1978), illustrating W.B. Yeats’ poem, the Stolen Child. From the Loretta Clarke Murray collection of women in revolutionary Ireland.
#samhain #spooky #stolenchild
"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
The Stolen Child - W. B Yeats
#FaustianFriday
#31DaysOfHalloween
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than he can understand.
—W.B. Yeats, The Stolen Child
🌟Arthur Rackham #FaustianFriday
'Birds in Autumn'~ Anne Yeats, (1964)
This is a two colour planogaphic print (lithograph) on paper, depicting three white birds in flight. Anne Yeats was a daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats and a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats and botanic artist Elizabeth Yeats.
One of the Sweetest Dreams, oil on canvas board, original, 5x7”
On sale for October 💜
Massively feeling inspired by JB Yeats at the moment