LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Irish Poet
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English Poet
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Swedish Poet
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None of them
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Yeats is considered one of the key twentieth-century English-language poets. He was a Symbolist poet, using allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career.
Detailed explanation-3: -I am here because of a lifelong interest in the work of our great Irish poet and Nobel Prize recipient, William Butler Yeats, who was born in Dublin 150 years ago this year.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nobel Prize winning William Butler Yeats is definitely the most well known poet to come from Irish shores, as much for his body of work as his turbulent private life. Born in 1865 in Dublin, he spent much of his childhood in Sligo which provided great inspiration for his early work.
Detailed explanation-5: -John Keats (b. 1795–d. 1821), a major British Romantic poet, produced his greatest works within an extraordinarily concentrated period of time-just three and a half years, from 1816 to early 1820.