• William Butler Yeats is an Irish dramatist, poet and critic. • He wrote the preamble of Tagore's 'Gitanjali' in 1912, which later got nobel prize in 1913. • W. B. Yeats got nobel prize in 1923. • His famous poems: - The Wild Swans at Coole, - The Tower, - The Winding Stair and Other Poems, - The Resurrection, - The Second Coming, - The Cat and The Moon, - The Lake Isle of Innisfree, - Among School Children, - The Lord of Harts, - Falling of Leaves, - A prayer for My Daughter, - When You Are Old. Source: Website Lecture and An ABC of English Literature & Encyclopedia of Britannica.