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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th - century literature.
A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
