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William Butler Yeats by George Charles Beresford
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George Charles Beresford
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Photo of edited picture of Yeats by Alice Boughton
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O. Mul1gan
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William Butler Yeates (i.e. Yeats), Irlandais prix Nobel de littérature et sa femme (Rol) - btv1b53123694x
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Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire)
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叶芝

葉芝
Yèzhī
proper noun #34,585

Meanings

  1. 1 Yeats - most commonly W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats), Irish poet and Nobel laureate

About W. B. Yeats

1865–1939 · 诗人 poet

Irish poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. His love poem 当你老了 (When You Are Old) is one of the most quoted foreign poems in China and was made into a popular Chinese song.

Also called  威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

Examples

HSK 5
叶芝是二十世纪最重要的英语诗人之一。
Yèzhī shì èrshí shìjì zuì zhòngyào de Yīngyǔ shīrén zhīyī.
Yeats is one of the most important English-language poets of the twentieth century.
HSK 5
她最喜欢的诗是叶芝的《当你老了》。
Tā zuì xǐhuan de shī shì Yèzhī de 《 Dāng nǐ lǎo le 》.
Her favourite poem is Yeats's 'When You Are Old'.

Tips

culture
Taiwan writes his name 叶慈. The song of 《当你老了》 was written by 赵照 in 2013 and took off in 2015, when 莫文蔚 (Karen Mok) sang it at the 春晚, the Spring Festival Gala.

Stroke Order

叶 yè
芝 zhī