W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, born in Sandymount near Dublin to a lawyer and portrait painter father.[1][4] A driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, he co-founded the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory and John Millington Synge, and received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][5] He later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State and died in Menton, France.[1][3]