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Date of Birth
He was born in Dublin To his Mother Susan Pollexfen and His father John Butler Yeats -
The stolon child
Perhaps one of his most famous poems, 'The Stolen Child', tops our list of the best W.B. Yeats poems of all time. -
His First Big statement
W.B. Yeats made his debut as a poet in 1887, he founded the Irish Theatre, which later became the Abbey Theatre. -
Beloved
Yeats met Maud Gonne, a 23-year-old English heiress and ardent Irish nationalist -
A new addition
plays became more experimental and poetic -
start as an important person
start of his term as member of the Seanad Eireann -
Nobel prize
Prize motivation: "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." -
life
he was 'rejuvenated' by the Steinach operation -
Date of Death
Died in 1939 of old age in france
