W.B. Yeats
13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist who was one of the foremost figures of twentieth-century literature. A driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
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Life events
W.B. Yeats was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount into an Anglo-Irish Protestant family.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe briefly studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin before devoting himself to writing.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe met the actress and nationalist Maud Gonne, who became a lifelong influence and unrequited love.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe helped establish Dublin's Abbey Theatre, a centrepiece of the Irish Literary Revival.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe married Georgie Hyde-Lees, with whom he explored automatic writing and mysticism.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was appointed a senator of the newly established Irish Free State.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature for his inspired poetry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgW.B. Yeats died in France; his remains were later reinterred in Drumcliff, County Sligo.
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