developed tubercular peritonitis and was sent to a sanitorium for three years;

Born in St. Louis, Missouri but became naturalized as a British subject at the age of 39

founded the Irish Literary Theatre along with Lady Gregory, Synge

Welsh lyrical poet

He migrated to the United States in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1946;

Author's father abandoned the family; nickname came from a horse jockey;

married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, yet the marriage failed and her poor emotional health brought him to the verge of a nervous breakdown; recuperated in a Swiss Sanitorium; divorced first wife and married secretary ten years later

director of the Abbey Theatre until his death in 1939

alcoholic; notorious stormy relationship with his wife, Caitlin Macnamara, whom he cheated on repeatedly;

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1947 long poem The Age of Anxiety, the title of which became a popular phrase describing the modern era

struggled with depression her entire life;

early poetry mostly concerned with the Waste Land

received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923

made money by traveling abroad, mostly to the US from 1950-1953 to do dramatic readings of his own and others' poetry

close friends with JRR Tolkien, who is the author of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit

satirized popular forms like hymns and nursery rhymes with an ironic twist, often evoking despair;

in 1948 he was awarded the rare honor of the Order of Merit by King George VI and the Nobel prize;

believed his writing encouraged great men to die at the hands of the British in the Easter Rebellion

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often included doodles or drawings with her poems, which went along with her playful style

considered THE poet of the modern symbolist-metaphysical tradition