Example sentences for: yeats

How can you use “yeats” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid ...

  • His was, as he saw it, a continuous poetic journey, aided here and there by slaves or muses--Arthur Symons, the symbolist who introduced him to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé in the 1890s; Maud Gonne, who made Irish nationalism romantic; Lady Augusta Gregory, an Irish Protestant aristocrat who collaborated with Yeats in his search of old Irish folklore and legends; and Ezra Pound, who stiffened Yeats' soft "Celtic" verse with a little modernist geometry.

  • Yeats "would be relieved to know ...

  • Yeats ("the greatest poet of the twentieth century"), urging the House managers to "be secret and exult" in their martyrdom.

  • Yeats was energetically shameless in this regard.


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