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W. B. Yeats

1865 - 1939

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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. B. Yeats has received more than 5,694,892 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). W. B. Yeats is the 407th most popular writer (down from 353rd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Ireland 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

Among writers, W. B. Yeats ranks 407 out of 5,755Before him are Lysias, Paul Auster, Propertius, Martial, Alvin Toffler, and Tom Clancy. After him are Sholem Aleichem, Gertrude Stein, Saint-John Perse, Thomas Bernhard, Meera, and Lactantius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, W. B. Yeats ranks 9Before him are Rudyard Kipling, Pieter Zeeman, Erich Ludendorff, Ferdinand I of Romania, Warren G. Harding, and Archduke Otto of Austria. After him are Alexander Glazunov, Carl Nielsen, Paul Dukas, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Sven Hedin, and Suzanne Valadon. Among people deceased in 1939, W. B. Yeats ranks 8Before him are Pope Pius XI, Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, James Naismith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Joseph Roth. After him are Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, Edward Sapir, Anton Makarenko, Philipp Scheidemann, and Karl Radek.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, W. B. Yeats ranks 19 out of 501Before him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Francis Bacon (1909), John Scotus Eriugena (810), Richard Harris (1930), and Anne Bonny (1702). After him are Ernest Shackleton (1874), Laurence Sterne (1713), Enya (1961), Michael Collins (1890), Columbanus (540), and Michael D. Higgins (1941).

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, W. B. Yeats ranks 7Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), James Joyce (1882), Jonathan Swift (1667), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Samuel Beckett (1906), and Bram Stoker (1847). After him are Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), Ethel Voynich (1864), and Thomas Moore (1779).