2 Quotes & Sayings By W B Yeats
W.B. (William Butler Yeats) (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He was a primary contributor to the symbols of modernism, and is often referred to as the Bard of Beaconsfield. Yeats was born on February 28, 1865, in Sandymount, Co
Dublin, Ireland, to John Butler Yeats and Susan Pollexfen. His family was of Welsh ancestry. The poet's early life became the basis for his first book of poems, The Trembling of the Veil (1894).