id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2431 W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia .html text/html 11463 1337 77 William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. In December 1923, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".[71] He was aware of the symbolic value of an Irish winner so soon after Ireland had gained independence, and sought to highlight the fact at each available opportunity. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2431.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2431.txt