William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939).

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William Butler Yeats is the child of John Butler Yeats and Susan Pollexfen.

Date / result	Award / category
1934 Received	Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
1923 Received	Nobel Prize in Literature
1923 Nominated	Nobel Prize in Literature
1922 Nominated	Nobel Prize in Literature
1921 Nominated	Nobel Prize in Literature
1918 Nominated	Nobel Prize in Literature
1915 Nominated	Nobel Prize in Literature
1914 Nominated	Nobel Prize in Literature
1902 Nominated	Nobel Prize in Literature
— Received	Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
— Received	Doctor of Letters

William Butler Yeats’s education and training.

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