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| DN-0071801, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-butler-yeats |
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865. He was the eldest child of John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen. Yeats spent his early years in London since his father was studying art, but he often returned to Dublin.
After returning to London in the late 1880s, Yeats met writers such as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. He also became acquainted with Maud Gonne, a supporter of Irish independence. This revolutionary woman served as a muse for Yeats for years. He even proposed marriage to her several times, but she turned him down.
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