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."
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Poetry (poetic works by one author), Irish authors, Poetry, Yeats, w. b. (william butler), 1865-1939, English poetry, Manuscripts, Folklore, Irish Poets, Textual Criticism, Drama, Tales, Facsimiles, Fairy tales, Fiction, History and criticism, Biography, Correspondence, English Manuscripts, English drama, Irish Authors, English literature, Celtic Mythology, Theater, History, Intellectual lifePlaces
Ireland, Dublin, Sligo (County), Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland), Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, Sligo (Ireland : County), London, Buenos Aires, England, Galway (Ireland : County), Irlanda, Irlande, Jefferson, London (England), Lucerne, Massachusetts, Memphis, Mississippi, New England, Orbis Tertius, Salem Village, Sligo (Comté), TlönPeople
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), J. M. Synge (1871-1909), Ossian (3rd cent), W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), Mangan's sister, Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Gregory Lady (1852-1932), Sophocles, T. Sturge Moore (1870-1944), Thomas Osborne Davis (1814-1845), A. Norman Jeffares (1920-), Adolfo Bioy Casares, Alfred Doolittle, Bengali Prose poems, Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891), Colonel Pickering, Colonel Sartoris, Davis Thomas (1814-1845), Devil, Eliza Doolittle, Emily Grierson, Ethelred, Ezra Buckley, Faith Brown, Faucigny LucingeTime
20th century, 19th century, 1920-, 1922-, 1600s, 17th century, 18th century, 1912, 1922-1949, 1935-1947, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1947, 19e siècle, 20e siècle, Antebellum era, Easter Rising, 1916, Siglo XIXID Numbers
- OLID: OL21207A
- BookBrainz: 9fbcd26d-449e-48e4-80e8-ee0802e970b2
- ISNI: 0000000120960541
- IMDb: nm0947102
- Library of Congress Names: n78095579
- LibraryThing: yeatswilliambutler
- LibriVox: 335
- MusicBrainz: 60ab738d-ffe9-45f6-bc08-f9ef5d4f7731
- Project Gutenberg: 1719
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV009382
- VIAF: 46768718
- Wikidata: Q40213
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q40213
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Alternative names
- William Butler Yeats
- W. B. Yeats
- W.B Yeats
- W. B Yeats
- Yeats W.B.
- W.B. Yeats
- W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
- W B Yeats
- B. W. Yeats
- W., B. Yeats
- Butler William Yeats
- WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
- W.B. YEATS
- William B. Yeats
- William-Butler Yeats
- W.b Yeats
- YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER, 1865-1939.
- W.B YEATS
- W B. Yeats
- YEATS, W.B. (WILLIAM BUTLER),1865-1939.
- YEATS, W.B. (WILLIAM BUTLER), 1865-1939
- William Yeats
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
- W. B. (William Butler) 1865-1939 Yeats
- WB Yeats
- W B. 1865-1939 Yeats
- W. B. 1865-1939 Yeats
- W. B. YEATS
- W. B. W. B. Yeats
- W. B. (William Butler) 1865-1 Yeats
- Yeats, William Butler|Yeats, W. B.
- W.B. (William Butler) Yeats
- William Butler (1865-1939) Yeats
- W.B. [William Butler] Yeats
- W. B.) William Butler) Yeats
- William Butler Yeats Butler Yeats
- William BUTLER YEATS
- W B 1865-1939 Yeats
- W B comp Yeats
- W. B. Yeats (chosen by)
- Yeats, William Butler, Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
- W. B. ; Ed. Yeats
- W B (Chosen by) Yeats
- [W B Yeats]
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