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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was a Nobel Laureate Irish poet and considered one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. A central theme in Yeats's poems is Ireland, its history, folklore and contemporary public life. As a writer Yeats made his debut in 1885, when he published his first poems in The Dublin University Review. Yeats was interested in folktales as part of an exploration of national heritage and for the revival of Celtic identity. This portrait is a digitally modified version of the original photograph Courtesy: United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. Permission No known restrictions on publication. This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 with a copyright notice, and its copyright was not renewed. It is not in the public domain in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works.