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.