The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to him in 1923. October in the same year see his marriage to Georgie Hyde-Lees. At the beginning of 1917, he purchased the Norman stone tower, (Thoor Ballylee) near Coole Park and restored the derelict building into a summer home and a central symbol in some of his later poetry. In 1897 he formed a friendship with Lady Gregory and her estate, Coole Park, became the setting for several of his poems. In 1889 he met his great love, Maud Gonne (1866-1953), who became the subject of his early love poetry, but she was to marry Major John MacBride in 1903, which was the inspiration of his poem, No Second Troy. In Yeats's memoirs, Four Years:1887-1891, Yeats claimed William Watson joined but never came, Frances Thompson came once but did not join, and Oscar Wilde would only attend meetings in private houses. In 1885 Yeats had his first poems published in the Dublin University Review, in 1887 he returned with his family to Chiswick, and 1890 see him along with Ernest Rhys form the Rhymers club, a group of poets who met in Fleet street, London between 1891-1894, the line up at the start included the likes of Richard Le Gallienne, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Arthur Symmons, John Davidson, T.W.Rolleston, Selwyn Image and Edwin Ellis. As poetry and as song a number of his poems have been recorded and also used on radio, TV and films.W.B.Yeats was born in Dublin Ireland on 13th June 1865, but moved to Chiswick London in 1867 due to his fathers career as a lawyer and did not return to Ireland until 1881, where he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, it was here that he met fellow poet George Russell who shared his interest in mysticism. His work has been widely circulated and anthologised. William Butler Yeats is one of Irelands most revered poets and playwrights.
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