Yeats, William Butler
- Country/Region:
- Ireland, France
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous prose, Poetry, Drama
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His father was a successful portrait painter, and the young Yeats intended to follow in his footsteps. He attended the School of Art in Dublin, but after three years he abandoned art for literature.
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