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William Butler Yeats

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“Adam’s Curse” is a three-stanza poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, inspired by a conversation he shared with two close friends. It was originally published in 1903 in the collection In the Seven Woods. The poem explores the relationship between writing poetry, love, and laboring towards an ideal.

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William Butler Yeats Biographies (7)

William Butler Yeats

1,663 words, approx. 6 pages

The Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was perhaps the greatest poet of the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 and was the leader of the Irish Literary ... Read more

William Butler Yeats

4,764 words, approx. 16 pages

William Butler Yeats is widely acknowledged as the greatest poet of the twentieth century. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and ... Read more

William Butler Yeats

6,047 words, approx. 21 pages

Although the reputation of William Butler Yeats rests primarily on his poetry, the drama remained one of the central concerns throughout his long career. As he explained in 1917, "I need a theatre; ... Read more

William Butler Yeats

33,966 words, approx. 114 pages

William Butler Yeats , probably the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and certainly one of its most complex men, was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount on 13 June 1865. He was the elde... Read more

William Butler Yeats

5,128 words, approx. 18 pages

William Butler Yeats was born into an Irish-Protestant family on 13 June 1865, in Dublin, the oldest of the four children of the artist John Butler Yeats and Susan Pollexfen Yeats. While he was a youn... Read more

William Butler Yeats

4,730 words, approx. 16 pages

William Butler Yeats , who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, is widely regarded as the best poet to write in English during the twentieth century. Yet from 1887 to 1905, the first third of h... Read more

William Butler Yeats

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Biography EssayWilliam Butler Yeats, probably the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and certainly one of its most complex men, was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount on 13 June 1865. H... Read more

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