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By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century´s greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.

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´But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...´

By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century´s greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.

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W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the greatest and most innovative poets of the twentieth century, and a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the ´sedentary toil´ of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

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