William Butler Yeats
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Birth Date 1865
Death Date 1939
Personal Name Yeats, W. B.
Alternate Names
- William Butler Yeats
- W. B. Yeats
- W.B Yeats
- W. B Yeats
- Yeats W.B.
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Irish poet, dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. 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."