A Drinking Song
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Poet William Butler Yeats 1865–1939
POET’S REGION Ireland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Living, Relationships, Love, Activities, Eating & Drinking
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
Biography
William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the seventeenth century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who merely happened to have been born in Ireland, but Yeats was staunch in . . .
Poems by William Butler Yeats
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Relationships, Love, Activities, Eating & Drinking
POET’S REGION Ireland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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