William Butler Yeats biography : The 13th of June 1865 marked the entry of Irishpoet, dramatist, mystic and civil servant, William Butler Yeats intothe world. Yeats’ father was John Butler Yeats, and his mother wasSusan Mary Pollexfen. Their family was very artistically inclined. Hisbrother was a well-known painter, and both his sisters were activelyinvolved in the Arts & Crafts movement. From Dublin, the family moved to London. Yeats was initially educatedat home, but in 1877, he was able to enter the Godolphin School. Hestudied there for four years but was considered by his masters as amediocre student. The family returned to Dublin in 1880 and in 1881,Yeats continued his education at the Erasmus Smith High School untilhe left in 1883. He started writing poetry between these periods and in 1885, his firstpoems were published in the Dublin University Review. His earlierworks include Irish Fairy Tales (1892), The Celtic Twilight (1893),and The Wanderings Of Oisin And Other Poems (1889). Yeats returned to Ireland in 1896 and reformed, first the IrishLiterary Society; followed by the National Literary Society. In1897,he co-founded the Irish Literary Theater. He met and married GeorgieHyde-Lee in 1917, and together, they collaborated on a book onmarriage entitled, A Vision (1925). In 1923, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in1934, he and Rudyard Kipling received the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry. His autobiography, Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats waspublished in 1938. Yeats suffered from several illnesses in his old age, and on 28January 1939, Yeats was laid to rest. He was 73.