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SELECTED POEMS W. B. Yeats 1865–1939

W. B. Yeats

1865–1939 · Ireland · Modern

William Butler Yeats moved from dreamy Irish legends to tough modern verse, and helped found Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. Poems such as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “The Second Coming” are among the most quoted of the century.

✒️ Major works

Poems by W. B. Yeats

Poems published before 1930, now in the public domain.

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Frequently asked questions

Are W. B. Yeats’s poems free to read?

Yes. W. B. Yeats’s poems published before 1930 are in the public domain, and you can read 7 of them here or as a flip book.

What are W. B. Yeats’s best-known works?

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), The Wild Swans at Coole (1917), The Tower (1928).

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