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William Butler Yeats, (June 13, 1865 d. June 28, 1939) is known today as one of the greatest poets of the English language from the 20th century. He was born in Dublin and raised as an Anglo-Irish Protestant. Yeats's father attended Trinity College providing young William with an intellectual heritage. This aristocratic position, combined with his mother's emotional heritage, which encompassed rural culture in the trade of ship-builders, gave Yeats a different perspective from many of his contemporaries.
He attended Dublin Art School. He began to write poetry at the age of 18. His interests in Irish legends and occults flooded his poetry and he often alluded to many old Irish myths. As he grew older, his obsession with his age and death became apparent in his poetry:
"The land of the Feary
where nobody gets old and godly and grave
where nobody gets old and crafty and wise
where nobody......

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