William Butler Yeats
Irish poet,dramatist and prose writer,one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century.Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.Between the Celtic visions of THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN (1889) and the intellectual,often obscure poetry of the 1930s,Yeats produced a tremendous amount of works.In his early career Yeats studied William Blake's poems,Emanuel Swedenborg's writings and other visionaries.Later he expressed his disillusionment with the reality of his native country.Central theme in Yeats's poems is Ireland,its bitter history,folklore,and contemporary public life.