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[[Image:N062238.jpg|thumb|right|400px|William Butler Yeats. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society]] | [[Image:N062238.jpg|thumb|right|400px|William Butler Yeats, 1914. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society]] | ||
'''William Butler Yeats''' (June 13 1865 – January 28 1939) ), the greatest lyric poet in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, remains a man of enormous contradictions. The nominal leader of the [[Irish literary renaissance]], he spent most of his adult life living in [[London]]; a quiet, sensitive soul, he was a political firebrand who at times seemed to flirt with [[fascism]]; a sometime dabbler in the occult, he was nevertheless a clear-eyed rationalist when it came to literary matters. Poet, playwright, political activist, and banner-carrier for Irish writers generally, Yeats is perhaps best remembered for his very late poetry, which was filled with richly humane meditations on human age and frailty. | '''William Butler Yeats''' (June 13 1865 – January 28 1939) ), the greatest lyric poet in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, remains a man of enormous contradictions. The nominal leader of the [[Irish literary renaissance]], he spent most of his adult life living in [[London]]; a quiet, sensitive soul, he was a political firebrand who at times seemed to flirt with [[fascism]]; a sometime dabbler in the occult, he was nevertheless a clear-eyed rationalist when it came to literary matters. Poet, playwright, political activist, and banner-carrier for Irish writers generally, Yeats is perhaps best remembered for his very late poetry, which was filled with richly humane meditations on human age and frailty. | ||
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William Butler Yeats (June 13 1865 – January 28 1939) ), the greatest lyric poet in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, remains a man of enormous contradictions. The nominal leader of the Irish literary renaissance, he spent most of his adult life living in London; a quiet, sensitive soul, he was a political firebrand who at times seemed to flirt with fascism; a sometime dabbler in the occult, he was nevertheless a clear-eyed rationalist when it came to literary matters. Poet, playwright, political activist, and banner-carrier for Irish writers generally, Yeats is perhaps best remembered for his very late poetry, which was filled with richly humane meditations on human age and frailty.