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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939 / County Dublin / Ireland)
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. His father was a lawyer turned Pre-Raphaelite painter. In 1867 the family followed him to London and settled in Bedford Park. In 1881 they returned to Dublin, where Yeats studied at the Metropolitan School of Art. Reincarnation, communication with the dead, mediums, supernatural systems and Oriental mysticism fascinated Yeats through his life. In 1886 Yeats formed the Dublin Lodge of the Hermetic Society.
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Popular Poems
- A Bronze Head
- A Coat
- A Cradle Song
- A Crazed Girl
- A Deep-Sworn Vow
- A Dialogue Of Self And Soul
- A Dramatic Poem
- A Dream Of Death
- A Drinking Song
- A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety
- A Faery Song
- A First Confession
- A Friend's Illness
- A Last Confession
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''Eyes spiritualised by death can judge,
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Are You Content?"
I cannot, but I am not content.''
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''O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "He Tells of the Perfect Beauty."
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze....''
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''"Old lovers yet may have
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Mohini Chatterjee."
All that time denied
Grave is heaped on grave
That they be satisfied
Over the blackened earth
The old troops parade...."''
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'''I have cap and bells,' he pondered,
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. The Cap and Bells (l. 21-24). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989...
'I will send them to her and die';
And when the morning whitened
He left them where she went by.''
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