W. B. Yeats

An Irish poet and dramatist, a leader of the Irish Literary Revival and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His early interest in Irish folklore and the occult produced The Celtic Twilight (1893); the poetry of his later years, from The Tower (1928) on, made him one of the major poets of the twentieth century. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 and served as a senator of the Irish Free State.