William Butler Yeats (1865-1939),
Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer,
One of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century.
Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Dublin..
In 1867 the family moved to London and settled in Bedford Park.
The central theme in Yeats's poems is Ireland,
its bitter history,folklore, and contemporary public life.
Later he expressed his disillusionment with the reality of
Ireland, his native country.
In 1896 Yeats returned to live permanently in Ireland.
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