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William Butler Yeats
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Irish poet and playwright (26 plays).
Won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature.
His surname is pronounced YATES.
His name is mentioned in
The Cranberries
' song "Yeat's Grave" from the album "No Need To Argue".
He allegedly declined a British knighthood in 1915.
Grew up in London and moved back to Dublin in 1880.
Had a brother Jack, who became a painter, and two sisters: Elizabeth and Susan Mary.
He was one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre.
Had a lifelong interest in the occult and mysticism.
Was inspired by the writings of
William Blake
.
Cormac McCarthy
named his most famous novel, "No Country For Old Men", after the first line of Yeats' Iconic poem "Sailing to Byzantium".
Pictured on a 68c commemorative postage stamp issued by Ireland on 11 June 2015, two days before the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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