William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was a poet and dramatist of Irish descent. Yeats was also an expert on the occult. Yeats was one of the forces behind the Irish Literary Revival, a movement sparked to create a new appreciation of Irish literature and to encourage the creation of works written in the vein of Irish culture as a distinct from English culture. Yeats was also co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. Yeats won the Noble Prize for Literature shared the Gothenburg Prize with Rudyard Kipling.
