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“To be born woman is to know—
Although they do not talk of it at school—
That we must labour to be beautiful.” - William Butler Yeats Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. Adam’s Curse (l. 18–20). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.

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William Butler Yeats

Titles by William Butler Yeats:

• Autobiographies
• Leda and the Swan
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Salem on History:

• William Butler Yeats

eNotes:

• William Butler Yeats (Autobiographies)
• William Butler Yeats (Leda and the Swan)
• William Butler Yeats (The Lake Isle of Innisfree)

Encyclopedia:

• Yeats, William Butler (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Yeats, William Butler (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Yeats, William Butler (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)

Salem on Literature:

• William Butler Yeats (Critical Survey of Drama)
• William Butler Yeats (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• William Butler Yeats (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• William Butler Yeats (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats (Poetry Criticism)
• Yeats, William Butler (Poetry Criticism)
• The Second Coming Yeats, William Butler (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• William Butler Yeats is born
• William Butler Yeats publishes The Wind Among the Reeds
• William Butler Yeats receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• William Butler Yeats dies