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William Butler Yeats was born on June 16, 1865 Dublin, Ireland. His father was both a lawyer and a well known painter. WIlliam was educated in both Dublin and in London throughout his years. His first volume appeared in 1887, and while for a while, during his earlier years, his dramatic productions overpowered his poetry. After this is when he really started to develop his poetry. "His later plays were written for small audiences; they experiment with masks, dance, and music, and were profoundly influenced by the Japanese Noh plays. Although a convinced patriot, Yeats deplored the hatred and the bigotry of the Nationalist movement, and his poetry is full of moving protests against it. He was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. Yeats is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize. Whereas he received the Prize chiefly for his dramatic works, his significance today rests on his lyric achievement" (Nobelprize.org). Some of his volumes which included: //The Wild Swans at Coole// (1919), //Michael Robartes and the Dancer (//1921), //The tower// (1940), etc., made him one of the most influential twentieth-century poets writing in English. Throughout his writing, he compared art and life, and cynical theories of life. He wrote about the human condition in both drastic and subtle ways. William left his mark, in the world with the gift of his written word. He died in 1939.

