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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) was one of the most influential English-language poets of the twentieth century. He received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. ROB DOGGETT is a professor of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He is the author of Deep-Rooted Things: Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats.
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