Excerpt from W. B. Yeats: A Critical Study William butler yeats, the eldest son of Mr. J. B. Yeats, the well-known artist, was born at Sandymount, Dublin, on the 13th of June, 1865. His paternal grandfather was William Butler Yeats, m.a., Rector of Tully lish, Co. Down; his maternal grandfather was William Pollexfen, merchant and shipowner, Sligo. At the age of nine he went to London, where his parents then lived, and received his first education at Godolphin School, Hammer smith. When he was fifteen he was sent to the Erasmus Smith School, Dublin. His grand parents lived in Sligo, and it is the Sligo country that forms the background of all his early work, both in prose and verse. The town of Ballah, which he writes of in J ohn Degreessherman, is the town of Sligo a town of grey streets, of narrow roads and mean little shops, full enough in summer of trout and salmon fishers, but sleeping all winter like the bears. Mr. Yeats's love Of Sligo is very vividly expressed in this book, written when. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.