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In June of 1865, he was born in Dublin, Ireland.
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He was trained in law, but abandoned it for art school. He later dropped out of art school in 1885.
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As a child, Yeats was familar with London and he returned there to meet with writers, he also met Maud Gonne there.
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Yeats published this play in 1892 and it was dedicated to Maud Gonne.
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Along with Ernest Rhys, Yeats and him found the Rhymer's Club Poetry group in London.
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They both helped found the Irish National Theatre Society in Ireland.
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One of Yeats best known plays was published.
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He got married to Georgiana after he was rejected Iseult Gonne, the daughter off Maud Gonne, who he also had asked to marry him before.
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One of Yeats most famous poems was published.
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Among Yeats's most well known poems, it is published and is about the "second coming" of Jesus.
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William went from writing to politics as he worked as a senator for 6 years in Ireland.
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William Butler Yeats wins a Nobel Prize in literature for "his his always inspired poetry"
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The Tower was a book of poems Yeats released late in life.
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William Butler Yeats dies at 73 at a boarding house on the French Riviera.
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Another famous work published after Yeats passes away.
