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A central figure in modern poetry, this Irish writer blended myth, politics, mysticism, and deep feeling into work that still feels vivid today. His poems and plays helped shape the Irish Literary Revival and earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Born in Dublin in 1865, William Butler Yeats became one of the most important English-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a dramatist and prose writer, and he played a major role in the Irish Literary Revival, helping to found Dublin's Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory and John Millington Synge.
Yeats's writing ranges from dreamlike early poems shaped by Irish legend and folklore to later work that is leaner, darker, and more forceful. Across his career, he returned again and again to big themes—love, aging, history, national identity, and the supernatural—while creating some of the best-known poems in modern literature.
In 1923, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work remains widely read not only for its musical language and unforgettable images, but also for the way it wrestles with personal feeling and public life at the same time.