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The Wild Swans at Coole
Year: 1918
Language: English
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The Wild Swans at Coole is considered to be the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and its major themes include Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.
Author's Biography
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the key Symbolist and Modernist poets. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was the first Irishman to receive this honour.