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W B Yeats

W B Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, a pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the Nobel Committee described as “inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation”.
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Poems by W B Yeats


An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

Leda and the Swan

Sailing to Byzantium

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Cap and Bells

The Second Coming

The Tower

The Wild Swans at Coole

When You Are Old