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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

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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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W.B. Yeats’s books

Average rating: 4.12 · 90,414 ratings · 4,346 reviews · 1,606 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats, Richard J. Finneran (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 38,905 ratings — published 1933 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Irish Fairy and Folk Tales 4.05 avg rating — 5,521 ratings — published 1888 — 280 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems by W.B. Yeats, John Kelly (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 5,096 ratings — published 1939 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore 4.02 avg rating — 3,142 ratings — published 1893 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry, Drama and Prose by W.B. Yeats, James Pethica (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 2,897 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, M.L. Rosenthal (Editor) 4.34 avg rating — 1,640 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tower 3.98 avg rating — 987 ratings — published 1928 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Terrible Beauty Is Born 3.67 avg rating — 1,064 ratings — published 1916 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	W.B. Yeats 4.03 avg rating — 863 ratings — published 1895 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cathleen ni Houlihan 3.57 avg rating — 967 ratings — published 1902 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats (12 books)
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W.B. Yeats,

Hugh Witemeyer,

George Bornstein (Editor)

4.22 avg rating — 39,824 ratings

Quotes by W.B. Yeats (?)

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder

3470 likes

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

2375 likes

“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

1650 likes

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Polls

Who is your favorite poet?

Emily Dickinson

53 votes, 9.1%

Edgar Allan Poe

48 votes, 8.2%

Sylvia Plath

30 votes, 5.1%

William Shakespeare

26 votes, 4.4%

Robert Frost

25 votes, 4.3%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

24 votes, 4.1%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

18 votes, 3.1%

William Blake (write-in)

17 votes, 2.9%

Not sure yet (write-in)

17 votes, 2.9%

William Butler Yeats

16 votes, 2.7%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

16 votes, 2.7%

Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes

15 votes, 2.6%

Walt Whitman (write-in)

15 votes, 2.6%

Mary Oliver (write-in)

13 votes, 2.2%

Robert frost (write-in)

11 votes, 1.9%

Robert Burns

10 votes, 1.7%

Alfred Tennyson

10 votes, 1.7%

Franz Kafka (write-in)

10 votes, 1.7%

Jon Keats (write-in)

10 votes, 1.7%

I'm not a fan of poetry

10 votes, 1.7%

Lord Byron (write-in)

10 votes, 1.7%

Christina Rossetti

9 votes, 1.5%

Bob Dylan

7 votes, 1.2%

W. H. Auden (write-in)

7 votes, 1.2%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)

7 votes, 1.2%

W.B. Yeats (write-in)

7 votes, 1.2%

Pablo Neruda (write-in)

7 votes, 1.2%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)

6 votes, 1.0%

You shouldn't let poets lie to you. (write-in)

6 votes, 1.0%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5 votes, 0.9%

Charles Baudelaire

5 votes, 0.9%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)

5 votes, 0.9%

Dante Alighieri (write-in)

5 votes, 0.9%

I don't have one

5 votes, 0.9%

Jim Morrison (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Maya Angelou (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Kendrick Lamar (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Carl Sandburg

3 votes, 0.5%

George Sterling (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Edward Lear (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (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%

Paul Celan (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Clement Clarke Moore

2 votes, 0.3%

Robert Louis Stevenson

2 votes, 0.3%

Stephen Vincent Benét

2 votes, 0.3%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Hugo Claus (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

A. S. Pushkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Sara Teasdale (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Georg Trakl (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%

James Joyce (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

john donne (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Amanda Gorman (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

James Whitcomb Riley

1 vote, 0.2%

Alfred Noyes

1 vote, 0.2%

Robert Service (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Victor Hugo (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%

Philip Larkin (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Carol Ann Duffy (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

JoAnna Novak (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%

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%

585 total votes

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