William Butler Yeats Biography

William Butler Yeats biography

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NAME: William Butler Yeats
OCCUPATION: Playwright, Poet
BIRTH DATE: June 13, 1865
DEATH DATE: January 28, 1939
EDUCATION: Metropolitan School of Art (Dublin)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Dublin, Ireland
PLACE OF DEATH: Menton, France

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William Butler Yeats was one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

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In 1917, William Butler Yeats published The Wild Swans at Coole, and from then onward he reached and maintained the height of his achievement. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, as a celebrated figure, he was indisputably one of the most significant modern poets and confounded expectations by producing his greatest work between the ages of 50 and 75.