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WB Yeats
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katie
⟶ Updated 6 Feb 2018 ⟶
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18 June, 1865 W.B. Yeats is born
1883 Attended the Metropolitan School of Arts in Dublin-->met other poets
1887 Joined Theosophical Society-mysticism: imaginative world removed from reality
1889 Fell in love with Maud Gonne
1891 Decline of Charles Stewart Parnell Yeats felt Irish political life lost all meaning→ leaves room for literature
1898-Bought a castle: Thoor Ballylee
1923 Awarded a Nobel Prize (literature ward)
"The Second Coming" is written
Yeats dies
Periods
Irish Revolution
World War I
Spent childhood in Sligo with grandparents