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W.B. Yeats


Born
in Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland
June 13, 1865

Died
January 28, 1939

Genre
Poetry, Religion & Spirituality, Literature & Fiction

Influences
Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, Ernest Rhys, John ...more


William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. 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." He was the first Irishman so honored. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after b ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 98,674 ratings · 5,426 reviews · 2,038 distinct works • Similar authors
The Collected Poems of W.B....
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4.23 avg rating — 40,377 ratings — published 1933 — 80 editions
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
4.04 avg rating — 6,138 ratings — published 1888 — 298 editions
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Selected Poems
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4.13 avg rating — 5,503 ratings — published 1939 — 94 editions
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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie...
4.01 avg rating — 3,421 ratings — published 1893 — 328 editions
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Poetry, Drama and Prose
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4.27 avg rating — 2,915 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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Selected Poems and Four Plays
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4.33 avg rating — 1,668 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions
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A Terrible Beauty Is Born
3.65 avg rating — 1,444 ratings — published 1916 — 8 editions
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The Tower
3.97 avg rating — 1,213 ratings — published 1928 — 43 editions
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W.B. Yeats
4.03 avg rating — 1,004 ratings — published 1895 — 194 editions
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Cathleen ni Houlihan
3.59 avg rating — 1,115 ratings — published 1902 — 25 editions
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Series by W.B. Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B.... The Collected Works of Will... The Autobiography of Willia... The Collected Works, Vol. 4... The Collected Works, Vol. 5... Prefaces and Introductions
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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats
tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
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“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats
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“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays
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Polls

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Who is your favorite poet?

 
  60 votes, 9.2%

 
  53 votes, 8.1%

Sylvia Plath
 
  32 votes, 4.9%

 
  28 votes, 4.3%

 
  25 votes, 3.8%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)
 
  25 votes, 3.8%

William Blake (write-in)
 
  22 votes, 3.4%

 
  19 votes, 2.9%

Not sure yet (write-in)
 
  19 votes, 2.9%

Walt Whitman (write-in)
 
  18 votes, 2.8%

 
  17 votes, 2.6%

 
  16 votes, 2.5%

Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes
 
  16 votes, 2.5%

 
  14 votes, 2.1%

Mary Oliver (write-in)
 
  14 votes, 2.1%

Robert frost (write-in)
 
  13 votes, 2.0%

 
  11 votes, 1.7%

Bob Dylan
 
  11 votes, 1.7%

Franz Kafka (write-in)
 
  11 votes, 1.7%

Jon Keats (write-in)
 
  11 votes, 1.7%

I'm not a fan of poetry
 
  10 votes, 1.5%

Lord Byron (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 1.5%

 
  8 votes, 1.2%

W. H. Auden (write-in)
 
  8 votes, 1.2%

W.B. Yeats (write-in)
 
  8 votes, 1.2%

Pablo Neruda (write-in)
 
  8 votes, 1.2%

 
  7 votes, 1.1%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)
 
  7 votes, 1.1%

Charles Baudelaire
 
  7 votes, 1.1%

You shouldn't let poets lie to you. (write-in)
 
  7 votes, 1.1%

I don't have one
 
  7 votes, 1.1%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 0.9%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)
 
  5 votes, 0.8%

Dante Alighieri (write-in)
 
  5 votes, 0.8%

 
  4 votes, 0.6%

Jim Morrison (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.6%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.6%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.6%

A. S. Pushkin (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.6%

Maya Angelou (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.6%

Kendrick Lamar (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.6%

George Sterling (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Edward Lear (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Anne Sexton
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Paul Celan (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

James Joyce (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Mahmoud Darwish (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

 
  2 votes, 0.3%

 
  2 votes, 0.3%

 
  2 votes, 0.3%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Hugo Claus (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Sara Teasdale (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Georg Trakl (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Victor Hugo (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Ivan Vazov (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Idea Vilariño (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Lang Leav (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Philip Larkin (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

john donne (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

JoAnna Novak (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Amanda Gorman (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Alfred Noyes
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Robert Service (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Herman Hesse (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Rachel Rooney (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Marin Sorescu (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Carol Ann Duffy (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Dylan Thomas (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Alejandra Pizarnik (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

William wordsworth (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Sappho (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Rakim, Nas (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Tracy K. Smith (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

A. E. Housman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Big L
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Sonya Sones
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya & Dulce María Loynaz
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

William McGonagall (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Joanna Novab (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Elizabeth Barrett browning (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

653 total votes
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