W. B. Yeats, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

W. B. Yeats

Irish poet and playwright

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1865

Place of Birth: Sandymount, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1939

Profession: writer, poet, politician, astrologer, playwright, mystic

Nationality: Ireland, Irish Free State

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others. Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London.
He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult.
These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century.
His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic.
He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.
In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.



Description	British-Irish photographer, author and writer
Date of birth/death	10 July 1864	21 February 1938
Location of birth/death	Dromahair, Ireland	Brighton
Work period	1902-1932
Work location	London
Authority control	: Q983504 VIAF: 6958662 ISNI: 0000 0000 5227 571X ULAN: 500098233 LCCN: no92010798 Oxford Dict.: 53502 WorldCat