William Butler Yeats

January 10, 2024
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William Butler Yeats
Full Name William Butler Yeats
Occupation Poet
Date Of Birth Jun 13, 1865(1865-06-13)
Age 159
Date Of Death 1939-01-28
Birthplace Sandymount
Country Ireland
Horoscope Gemini

William Butler Yeats Biography

Name William Butler Yeats
Birthday Jun 13
Birth Year 1865
Place Of Birth Sandymount
Birth Country Ireland
Birth Sign Gemini
Spouse Georgiana Hyde-Lees

William Butler Yeats is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on June 13, 1865 in Sandymount, Ireland. Major Irish poet and Nobel Prize recipient who is famous as the author of The Tower, The Green Helmet and other pieces. A playwright too, he produced several of his plays which included Purgatory that were staged at the renowned Abbey Theatre.

Similar to Like Oscar Wilde, Yeats was a famous Irish author., Yeats was a well-known Irish writer.

He was married to Georgie Hyde-Lees a woman who was nearly 20 years younger than him. The happy couple gave birth to two children.

William Butler Yeats Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Poet
House Living in own house.

William Butler Yeats is one of the richest Poet from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Butler Yeats 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a lifetime enthusiast in occultism and mysticism, and was a member of The Ghost Club, a paranormal research organisation in 1911.

The poem written by his 1920 poet “The Second Coming” contains striking pictures of destruction and transformation.

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Who is William Butler Yeats Dating?

According to our records, William Butler Yeats married to Georgiana Hyde-Lees. As of December 1, 2023, William Butler Yeats’s is not dating anyone.

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William Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. William Butler Yeats celebrates birthday on June 13 of every year.

What is William Butler Yeats most famous poem?

Perhaps one of his most famous poems, ‘ The Stolen Child ‘, tops our list of the best W.B. Yeats poems of all time. Its major theme is the loss of innocence as a child grows up. Written in 1886 when Yeats was just 21, ‘The Stolen Child’ is one of his works that is strongly rooted in Irish mythology.

What is William Butler Yeats most famous for?

William Butler Yeats, (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland—died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France), Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Why did William Butler Yeats win the Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats “ for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.

What is W. B. Yeats poetry mainly about?

Yeats began by writing epic poems such as The Isle of Statues and The Wanderings of Oisin. His other early poems are lyrics on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects.

What does the word Yeats mean?

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

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