Who is an Irish Poet and dramatist?

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939):
- Irish dramatist, poet and critic.
- He is famous for his use of “Symbolism and Mysticism”.
- He wrote the preamble of Tagore's “Gitanjali” in 1912, which later got Nobel prize in 1913.
- W.B Yeats got the Nobel prize in 1923.

Major Works:

Poems:
- The Wild Swans at Coole,
- The Tower
- The Winding Stair and Other poems
- The Resurrection, The Second Coming
- The Cat and the Moon
- Sailing to Byzantium
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- Among School Children
- A Prayer for My Daughter
- When You Are Old.

Drama:
- The Countess Cathleen
- Cathleen in Houlihan.


W.B Yeats & Rabindranath Tagore:
- 'Gitanjali' is the most famous work by Rabindranath Tagore.
- Tagore then translated it into prose poems in English as 'Gitanjali: Song Offerings' and it was published in 1912 with a preamble written by W.B. Yeats.
- Tagore won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for Song Offerings.


Source: Encyclopedia Britannica and Lecture.