Into The Page: Henry David inspires W.B. Yeats to write “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”

Описание: Welcome into the page of Irish writer William Butler Yeats’ autobiography and a passage in which he recalls a moment of inspiration from Henry David Thoreau.

After living from 1845-47 in a small cabin that he built on the shore of Walden Pond Concord, Massachusetts, writer and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wrote his famed book WALDEN: or, LIFE IN THE WOODS. The book was published in 1854. Thoreau died in 1862.

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1865 (died 1939. When he was a child, his father read Thoreau’s WALDEN to him, and the idea of Thoreau living by a pond shore, in a small cabin he built himself, among bean rows, bees, and the peace of nature, stayed with Yeats throughout his life later leading to Yeats penning his now famed poem, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”.


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Places to visit:

Concord, MA, USA: : Walden Pond State Reservation and Visitor Center
915 Walden Street, Concord, MA
Fee-required large parking lot with easy flat access to visitor center, gift shop run by knowledgeable guides from the Thoreau Alliance, and public restrooms and water fountains. Thoreau cabin replica by the visitor center, and Walden Pond is down the hill across the street. A wheelchair accessible out r permitted path is available with marked activities along the path.


Sligo, Ireland: The Yeats Building and the Yeats Society Sligo
Www.yeatssociety.com

The Wild Atlantic Way. This is a cultural route along Ireland’s west coast and passes through Rosses Point where Yeats spent time with his grandparents, and many other Yeats and Irish literary sites,
Www.thewildatlanticway.com