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W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats) (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of...

W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats) (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount and was educated in Dublin and London and spent…
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