Pagine1865–1939 · Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland · also known as William Butler Yeats, Yeats
William Butler Yeats led the Irish Literary Revival, gathering folklore in The Celtic Twilight (1893) and co-founding the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1904. His poems range from the dreamy “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” to the political “Easter, 1916” and the prophetic “The Second Coming” (“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 and served as a senator of the new Irish Free State.
Begin with The Wind Among the Reeds.
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William Butler Yeats led the Irish Literary Revival, gathering folklore in The Celtic Twilight (1893) and co-founding the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1904. His poems range from the dreamy “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” to the political “Easter, 1916” and the prophetic “The Second Coming” (“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”).
The Wind Among the Reeds is usually considered W. B. Yeats’s best-known work, followed by The Celtic Twilight, The Tower.
Most readers start with The Wind Among the Reeds.
Both refer to the same writer. Other spellings and names include William Butler Yeats, Yeats.
Many of W. B. Yeats’s works are in the public domain; we link to free editions below.