From 1884 to 1886, he attended the Metropolitan School of Art (now the National College of Art and Design) in Kildare Street. It was during this period that he started writing poetry and in 1885, Yeats' first poems, as well as an essay called "The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson", were published in the Dublin University Review. He remained at the high school until December 1883. His father's studio was located nearby and he spent a great deal of time there, meeting many of the city's artists and writers. In October 1881, Yeats resumed his education at the Erasmus Smith High School in Dublin ( The High School, Dublin). For financial reasons, the family returned to Dublin toward the end of 1880, living at first in the city centre and later in the suburb of Howth. He did not distinguish himself academically. In 1877, William entered the Godolphin school, which he attended for four years. Their mother, who was homesick for Sligo, entertained them with stories and folktales from her county of birth. At first, the Yeats children were educated at home. When Yeats was young, his family moved first from Sandymount, County Dublin, to County Sligo, and then to London to enable his father John to further his career as an artist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for what the Nobel Committee described as "his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation". Yeats, though born to an Anglo-Saxon Protestant mother and father, was perhaps the primary driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and was co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. William Butler Yeats ( IPA: /jeɪts/) ( 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure, brother of the artist Jack Butler Yeats and son of John Butler Yeats.
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