TWA Poet: William Butler Yeats

1865 - 1939

It’s the birthday of Irish poet and playwright William Butler (W.B.) Yeats (1865), best known for his staunch Irish nationalism and poems like “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “Easter 1916,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” and “The Second Coming,” which contains the famous lines, “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last / Slouches toward Bethlehem to be bor…