Irish poet, dramatist and writer W. B. Yeats is born
On June 13, 1865 W. B. Yeats was born. The Irish writer, poet and playwright was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland.
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
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W. B. Yeats
From the Irish Winners of Nobel Prize for Literature series
Released by An Post October 1, 2004
1923 Nobel Prize winner for literature
W.B. Yeats, generally acknowledged to be the greatest poet of the modern era, lived an extraordinarily rich and productive life as the founder and guiding spirit of the Irish Literary Revival and the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland. His writing helped to inspire Ireland’s struggle for independence and his ideas on intellectual freedom within a democratic society and the role of culture in shaping a distinctive national identity had an influence that continues to the present day. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) – (wbyeatsfoundation.com)