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William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13,1865. His childhood lacked the harmony that was typical of a happy family. Later, [13] Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered "little of childhood but its pain". In fact, he inherited excellent taste in art from his family -- both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama and poetry.
Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received favorably at the beginning. He didn't lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.
Compared with his dramatic works, Yeats's poems attract much admiring notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern sensibility to them. [14] As his literary life progressed, his poetry_ grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide recognition.
He had not enjoyed a major public life since winning the Nobel Price in 1923. Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age40, he would probably now be valued as a minor poet, for [14] there is no other example in literary_ history_ of a poet who produces his greatest works between the age of 50 and 75. After Yeats's death in 1939, W. H. Auden wrote, among others, the following lines:
【预测】选项均以it开头，其中的artistic atmosphere．family和childhood with laughter表明，it可能是指叶芝(Yeats.的家庭。
【解析】A。短文中提到叶芝(Yeats.的童年回忆是痛苦的(little of childhood but its pain.，但事实上，叶芝从他家庭里继承了优秀的艺术品位(inherited excellent taste in art from his family.，即叶芝的家庭有艺术氛围，故答案为A。in fact在此含有转折的意思，其后内容常作为考点。