English poetic timeline

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  • Date of Birth

    Date of Birth

    He was born in Dublin To his Mother Susan Pollexfen and His father John Butler Yeats
  • The stolon child

    The stolon child

    Perhaps one of his most famous poems, 'The Stolen Child', tops our list of the best W.B. Yeats poems of all time.
  • His First Big statement

    His First Big statement

    W.B. Yeats made his debut as a poet in 1887, he founded the Irish Theatre, which later became the Abbey Theatre.
  • Beloved

    Beloved

    Yeats met Maud Gonne, a 23-year-old English heiress and ardent Irish nationalist

  • A new addition

    plays became more experimental and poetic
  • start as an important person

    start as an important person

    start of his term as member of the Seanad Eireann
  • Nobel prize

    Nobel prize

    Prize motivation: "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."
  • life

    life

    he was 'rejuvenated' by the Steinach operation
  • Date of Death

    Date of Death

    Died in 1939 of old age in france