WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS' BIRTHDAY

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, on this date in 1865 . He was a poet, a playwright, and collector of Irish fairy and folk tales. He was obsessed with Mysticism and the Occult all his life. He became involved in the Irish Independence Movement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. He died in France in 1939.
Other on-line biographies can be found on:
The Literature Network
The Columbia Encyclopedia
Poetry Connection
Wikipedia

Lots of other links can be found at Open Directory. There is also an official Yeats/Sligo site. His collected poems are available on-line at California State University at Northbridge.

Elk Grove Village Library has some of Yeats' writings:

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (821.8 YEA)
The Poems (821 YEA)
The Collected Works (821 YEA)
The Collected Plays (822.912 YEA)
The Secret Rose: Love Poems of W.B. Yeats (821.8 YEA)
Essays & Introductions (824.912 YEA)
Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland (398.21 FAI)
Fairy tales of Ireland (J 398.2 YEA)

There are also several biographies and criticisms available, including:

W.B. Yeats (1970) by Raymond Cowell (821.8 COE)
W.B. Yeats, a New Biography (1988) by A. Norman Jeffares (B YEA)
Critics on Yeats (1971) compiled by Raymond Cowell (821.8 COW)
William Butler Yeats (1986) edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom (821.8 YEA)
Yeats (1976) by Frank Tuohy (B YEA)
Critical Essays on W.B. Yeats (1986) edited by Richard J. Finneran (821 YEA)
William Butler Yeats (1982) by Richard F. Peterson (821.8 PET)