W. B. Yeats

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WBY , who began publishing well before the end of the nineteenth century, is regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century poets in English, and one of the most international of Irish writers. He was early involved in the Irish Literary Revival, and wrote early, highly romantic lyrics on Celtic and fairy themes. Later he made poetry out of the search for a poetic language. Some of his later work is affected by his interest in the occult.

Milestones

13 June 1865

William Butler Yeats , Irish poet and playwright, was born in Sandymount, a suburb of Dublin.
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March 1885

WBY published his first poem, Mosada: A Dramatic Poem, in the Dublin University Review.
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14 February 1928

WBY published The Tower, a volume containing several of his best-known poems—such as Sailing to Byzantium, Among School Children, and Leda and the Swan.
Wade, Allan, and Russell K. Alspach. A Bibliography of the Writings of W.B. Yeats. Hart-Davis.
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28 January 1939

WBY , Irish poet and playwright, died at Roquebrune near Menton in the South of France.
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Biography

Birth and Family

13 June 1865

William Butler Yeats , Irish poet and playwright, was born in Sandymount, a suburb of Dublin.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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