CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of Ireland in the family’s summer house at Connaught.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer and one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He was born on June 13, 1865, in Sandymount, Ireland, to John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the 17th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -He devoted much of his life to promoting and sustaining a distinctively Irish literary tradition. During a career that spanned more than 50 years and included a 1923 Nobel Prize for literature, Yeats published more than 100 works of poetry, drama, and prose.