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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). One of the great poets of the modern age. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1923.
<p><strong>'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.'</strong> - <em>T.S. Eliot</em><br /><br /><strong>'You were silly like us; your gift survived it all;The parish of rich women, physical decay, yourself;Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.'</strong> - <em>W.H Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats</em></p>
<p><strong>'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.'</strong> - <em>T.S. Eliot</em></p>
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). One of the great poets of the modern age. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1923.