Full Name: William Butler Yeats

Father: John Butler Yeats (lawyer, painter)
Mother: Susan Mary Pollexfen
Brother: Jack (painter)
Sister: Elizabeth, Susan
Girlfriend: Olivia Shakespeare (dated 1896)
Wife: Miss George Hyde-Lees (m. 1917)
Daughter: Anne Butler Yeats (b. 1919)
Son: William Michael Yeats (b. 1921)

Born: June 13, 1865
Birth Place: Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland
Died: January 28, 1939
Death Place: Menton, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
Cause of Death: Unspecified

Occupation: Playwright, Poet, Writer
Remains: Buried, Drumcliff Churchyard, Sligo, Ireland
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Nationality: Ireland
Education: National College of Art and Design (1884 – 1886)
Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Literature 1923

Books and Plays: The Wild Swans at Coole, W. B. Yeats, Cathleen Ní Houlihan, The countess Cathleen, The Tower, The Celtic Twilight, Collected poems, A Poet to His Beloved etc...

Nobel Prize-winning Irish dramatist, author and poet William Butler Yeats was born June 13, 1865, in Sandymount, Dublin. The works of W B Yeats form a bridge between the romantic poetry of the nineteenth century and the hard clear language of modern poetry. He won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. He died in Roquebrune, France, on January 28, 1929.

Early Life: William Butler Yeats was both poet and playwright, a towering figure in 20th-century literature in English was born on June 13, 1865, in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland. His John Butler Yeats was a portrait artist but he educated an attorney. His mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen, was from Sligo, where Yeats spent summers in childhood and later made his home. At first, Yeats Jr. was educated at home. His mother entertained them with stories and Irish folktales. John provided an erratic education in geography and chemistry and took William on natural history explorations of the nearby Slough countryside. On 26 January 1877, the young poet entered the Godolphin school, which he attended for four years.

At the age of nineteen Yeats enrolled in the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, intending to become a painter. In 1887 he became a literary correspondent for two American newspapers. Among his acquaintances at this time were his father's artist and writer friends, including William Morris (1834–1896), George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), and Oscar Wilde (1856–1900).

Later Life: Immediately after the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Yeats was appointed to its first Senate, where he served for two terms. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In December 1923, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and was determined to make the most of the occasion. He was aware of the symbolic value of an Irish winner so soon after Ireland had gained independence, and sought to highlight the fact at each available opportunity. In the last years of his life, Yeats’ poems became more personal and his politics more conservative. He founded the Irish Academy of Letters in 1932 and continued to write quite prolifically. His friendship with Ezra Pound in particular was a close one, and Pound eventually took a job as the writer's secretary. He was also known to Ford Madox Ford and T. S. Eliot.

Writing: William Butler Yeats wrote many books about his whole life. His poetry, especially the volumes The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), The Tower (1928), The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), and Last Poems and Plays (1940), made him one of the outstanding and most influential twentieth-century poets writing in English. Countess Cathleen (1892), The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), The King's Threshold (1904), and Deirdre (1907) are among the best known.

Death: Yeats died on January 28, 1939, in Menton, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France at the age of 73.; after World War II his body was moved to Drumcliffe, County Sligo.