Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer William Butler Yeats was the preeminent writer of the Irish literary renaissance at the turn of the 20th century. In 1899 he cofounded the Irish Literary Theatre, which later became the Abbey Theatre. He was also an important figure in European literary Modernism in the 1920s and ’30s. Many of his poems, in particular “Easter, 1916” (1916), “The Second Coming” (1920), and “Sailing to Byzantium” (1927), are considered among the greatest English-language poems of the modern era. In 1923 Yeats became the first Irish writer to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature.
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