disease and was too ill to be encouraged.He continued a correspondence with Fanny Brawne and-when he could no longer bear to write to her directly-her mother,but his failing health and his literary ambitions prevented their getting married.Under his doctor's orders to seek a warm climate for the winter,Keats went to Rome with his friend,the painter Joseph Severn.He died there on February 23, 1821,at the age of twenty-five,and was buried in the Protestant cemetery. See more at:http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/66#sthash.1IBYHJPp.dpuf W.B.Yeats Born in Dublin,Ireland,in 1865,William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter,John Butler Yeats.He spent his childhood in County Sligo,where his parents were raised,and in London.He returned to Dublin at the age of fifteen to continue his education and study painting,but quickly discovered he preferred poetry.Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class,Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival,a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period,which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland's native heritage.Though Yeats never learned Gaelic himself,his writing at the turn of the century drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore.Also a potent influence on his poetry was the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne,whom he met in 1889,a woman equally famous for her passionate nationalist politics and her beauty. Though she married another man in 1903 and grew apart from Yeats(and Yeats himself was eventually married to another woman,Georgie Hyde Lees),she remained a powerful figure in his poetry. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland,and in the twenties,despite Irish independence from England,his verse reflected a pessimism about the political situation in his country and the rest of Europe,paralleling the increasing conservativism of his American counterparts in London,T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound. His work after 1910 was strongly influenced by Pound,becoming more modern in itsdisease and was too ill to be encouraged. He continued a correspondence with Fanny Brawne and—when he could no longer bear to write to her directly—her mother, but his failing health and his literary ambitions prevented their getting married. Under his doctor's orders to seek a warm climate for the winter, Keats went to Rome with his friend, the painter Joseph Severn. He died there on February 23, 1821, at the age of twenty-five, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/66#sthash.1lBYHJPp.dpuf W. B. Yeats Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo, where his parents were raised, and in London. He returned to Dublin at the age of fifteen to continue his education and study painting, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland's native heritage. Though Yeats never learned Gaelic himself, his writing at the turn of the century drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Also a potent influence on his poetry was the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, whom he met in 1889, a woman equally famous for her passionate nationalist politics and her beauty. Though she married another man in 1903 and grew apart from Yeats (and Yeats himself was eventually married to another woman, Georgie Hyde Lees), she remained a powerful figure in his poetry. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland, and in the twenties, despite Irish independence from England, his verse reflected a pessimism about the political situation in his country and the rest of Europe, paralleling the increasing conservativism of his American counterparts in London, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. His work after 1910 was strongly influenced by Pound, becoming more modern in its