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William Butler Yeats

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Profession
Poet
Died
Jan 28, 1939
Zodiac
Gemini
Born in
Ireland
About
Major Irish Symbolist poet and Nobel Prize recipient who is remembered for The Tower, The Green Helmet, and other works. Also a playwright, he had several of his dramas, including Purgatory, performed at the famous Abbey Theatre.
Family
He married Georgie Hyde-Lees, a woman nearly twenty years his junior. The happy union produced two children.

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