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W. B. Yeats

1865 - 1939

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William Butler Yeats (, 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939), popularly known as W. B. Yeats, was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. W. B. Yeats is the 410th most popular writer (up from 480th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 19th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Irish Writer.

W. B. Yeats is most famous for his poetry. He was a member of the Irish Literary Revival and a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1923.

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Among writers, W. B. Yeats ranks 410 out of 7,302. Before him are Graham Greene, Susan Sontag, Livius Andronicus, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Wilhelm Grimm, and Jorge Amado. After him are Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Sándor Petőfi, Wu Cheng'en, James Fenimore Cooper, and Henning Mankell.

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Among people born in 1865, W. B. Yeats ranks 11. Before him are Erich Ludendorff, Archduke Otto of Austria, Ferdinand I of Romania, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Arthur Harden, and Warren G. Harding. After him are Carl Nielsen, Alexander Glazunov, Suzanne Valadon, Sven Hedin, Wilfrid Voynich, and Paul Dukas. Among people deceased in 1939, W. B. Yeats ranks 7. Before him are Sigmund Freud, Pope Pius XI, Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Joseph Roth. After him are Eugen Bleuler, S. P. L. Sørensen, Ghazi of Iraq, Harvey Cushing, Philipp Scheidemann, and Werner von Fritsch.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, W. B. Yeats ranks 26 out of 549. Before him are George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Pierce Brosnan (1953), Grace O'Malley (1530), and J. D. Bernal (1901). After him are G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), Anne Bonny (1702), Ernest Shackleton (1874), John Field (1782), Kevin Farrell (1947), and Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, W. B. Yeats ranks 7. Before him are James Joyce (1882), Oscar Wilde (1854), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), and Bram Stoker (1847). After him are Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), Saint Gall (550), and Ethel Voynich (1864).

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