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W. B. Yeats

1865–1939 · 20th century · Also known as William Butler Yeats

W. B. Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, a leading figure of the Irish literary revival and of modernist poetry. He co-founded the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, served as a senator of the Irish Free State and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923; his poems include Easter, 1916 and The Second Coming.

W. B. Yeats
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