William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and mystic who signed his works W. B. Yeats. Although born to an Anglo-Irish mother and father, Yeats was one of the primary driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and was co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. Yeats also served as an Irish Senator in his later years. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for what the Nobel Committee described as "his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".
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