William Butler Yeats

W.B.Yeats was a poet and a dramatist. He was born in Dublin in 1865, the son of a noted Irish painter. In 1887 They migrated to London.He wrote lyrical symbolic poems on Irish themes, for example, "The Wondering s of Osin" and " Lake Isle of Innis-free"He believed in characteristics of ancient Celts. He also wrote "Celtic Twilight" and the "Secret Rose". on his visit to Ireland, He met the beautiful Irish patriot  Maud Gonne and fell in love with her.For the rest of his life, she inspired him.Yeats returned to Ireland in 1896. There he joined the playwright, Lady gregory and they both started the famouse "Abbey Theater" in 1904. There he devoted to production of plays. Among the plays he produced with Maud Gonne were "Cathleen ni Houlihan" and "Deidre" a tragedy in verse. Later in his life Yeats wrote some more poems such as 

•  The Wing among the reeds
• The shadowy waters
• The Green Hamlet

In his poetry, he displays how much he loved realistic theory. His later poetry was free from self-consciousness.