William Butler Yeats (13 June, 1865 – 28 January, 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in the year 1923.
Biography[]
One of his poems was The Song of the Wandering Aengus. When Jonathan Archer could not get to sleep during his childhood, his mother Sally Archer would often recite the poem to him. He did not learn that it was by Yeats until he was much older. (ENT episode: "Rogue Planet")
Miles O'Brien's mother Megan O'Brien tried to get him interested in Yeats by the poem No Second Troy. O'Brien later reflected that he had no interest in, or understanding of, the poetry or the history illustrated in it as a child. (DS9 novelization: The Search)
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Background information[]
- The DS9 novelization adaptation of "Sacrifice of Angels quotes a part of Yeats' "Into the Twilight".
References[]
- DS9 novelization: The Search
- ENT episode: "Rogue Planet"
- VOY novel: Shadow of Heaven
- PIC novel: The Last Best Hope
External links[]
- W.B. Yeats article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- W.B. Yeats article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.