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William Butler Yeats is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century. He was born in Sandymount, Dublin on June 13 1865. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Yeats was born to a Protestant family, but felt disenfranchised by their materialism, while he also felt removed from Roman Catholics because he didn't believe in their religion. Yeats felt the best thing to do was create a culture and tradition of his own which would be more profound than either the Protestants of Catholics. His tradition was one of a hidden Ireland and existed on anthropological customs rather than the current religious beliefs.

Yeats was first published in 1885 by the Dublin University Review, and in 1888 decided to take on the life of a professional writer. While in Trinity College Dublin he joined the Theosophical Society. He surrounded himself with poetic works and came across other visionary traditions such as Platonic and Neo-platonic.

In 1889 Yeats met Maud Gone, a beautiful Irish woman with brilliant talents. He fell in love with Maud Gone, but he felt that his hopes did not stand a chance with her. Maud admired Yeats but did not love him. She was a rebel and Irish patriot and Yeats ended up joining the Irish nationalist movement in 1902, a movement with Maud headed up.

Yeats asked Maud Gone to marry him in 1899, but she declined and later went on to marry John Mcbride who was an Irish soldier and was more suited to her interests in Irish nationalism.

Yeats was a director of the theatre, The Irish Literary Theatre, a post he carried out until he died. This theatre is the modern day abbey theatre and can be found on Abbey Street.

In 1917 Yeats asked Iseult Gonne, daughter of Maud Gonne, to marry him, but she refused the request. In the same year Yeats became engaged to Miss George Hyde Lees and they were married in the same year. A daughter, Anne Butler Yeats, was born in 1919, and a son, William Michael Yeats, in 1921.

Yeats passed away in 1939 while in France. He was buried at Roquebrune, France with the intention that his body would be moved to Sligo at a later date. In 1948 his body was taken back to Sligo and buried at a small Protestant Church in Drumcliffe.