Brief introduction of Ye Zhi

Ye Zhi generally refers to William Butler Yeats and William Butler Yeats (June 65438 +0865, June 65438+03 ~ June 65438 +09391October 28th), and also translates "Ye Zhi" and "Yates", an Irish poet, playwright and essayist, a famous mystic and an Irish Renaissance.

Influenced by romanticism, aestheticism, mysticism, symbolism and metaphysical poetry, Ye Zhi's poetry has formed its own unique style. Ye Zhi's art represents the epitome of English poetry's transition from tradition to modernity.

Extended data

Ye Zhi characters experience: Ye Zhi was born in Sandmont, not far from Dublin. He is the son of a portrait painter. His childhood was spent with his parents, and his grandfather's real estate business was in sligo County.

Ye Zhi studied painting in his early years, was a young member of London artists and writers' group, and paid attention to regular yellow books. He wrote the poetic drama Mossad (1886); Ushin's Wandering (1899).

He wrote four other works before returning to Ireland in 1896. His father "john butler Ye Zhi" is a descendant of jervis Ye Zhi, a linen merchant. This businessman died in 17 12, and his grandson Benjamin married Mary Butler, the daughter of a noble family in kildare. John Ye Zhi was studying law when he got married, but he soon dropped out of school to study portrait painting.

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