Hvem daterede William Butler Yeats?

William Butler Yeats ([jeɪts]; 13. juni 1865 i Sandymount ved Dublin – 28. januar 1939 i Menton, Frankrig) var en irsk forfatter, som deltog i den irske frihedsbevægelse. Han anses for at være en af de mest betydningsfulde engelsksprogede forfattere i det 20 århundrede. Han modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1923. W. B. Yeats bror var maleren Jack Butler Yeats.

Han blev begravet i Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, og i 1948 flyttet til landsbyen Drumcliff i County Sligo.

Marguerite "Margot" Ruddock (1907–1951), who used the stage name Margot Collis, was an English actress, poet and singer. She had a relationship with W. B. Yeats starting in 1934. Their correspondence was published as Ah, Sweet Dancer (1970).

Yeats edited her poems for publication, but it is not clear how much change he made to them. He included some of them in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, which he edited.

Some of her poems have been set as songs by the composer Robert Erickson.

She was married twice: first to John Collis, with whom she had a son, Michael, and secondly to Raymond Lovell, with whom she had a daughter, Simone Lovell. She died in 1951, when she was 44.

During her marriage to Raymond Lovell she had an affair with Yeats. When they met in 1934, Yeats was 69 and Ruddock`was 27. Their affair was conducted fitfully over the next few years. The affair broke down and Ruddock became mentally unstable. Some months later she followed Yeats (uninvited) out to the island of Majorca, where he was working with the Indian monk Shri Purohit Swami. Ruddock ended up in an asylum in Madrid from where she was rescued by Yeats and his friends, but later died in another institution, St. Ebba's Hospital in Epsom. Yeats' poem "A Crazed Girl" is believed to be inspired by Ruddock.

Olivia Shakespear, född Olivia Tucker, född 17 mars 1863, död 3 oktober 1938, var en brittisk romanförfattare, dramatiker och mecenat. Hon skrev sex böcker som beskrivs som "äktenskapsproblem-romaner". Hennes verk sålde dåligt, ibland bara ett par hundra exemplar. Hennes sista roman, Nurse Harry, anses vara hennes bästa. Hon skrev två pjäser i samarbete med Florence Farr.