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Who is W. B. Yeats ?

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W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats), 1865-1939, Irish poet and playwright, b. Dublin. The greatest lyric poet Ireland has produced and one of the major figures of 20th-century literature, Yeats was the acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance .

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