Menu Menu William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), born in Dublin, is among the best-known poets of the twentieth century. His first book, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, was published in 1889; his other books include In the Seven Woods, Responsibilities and Other Poems, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Tower, and The Winding Stair and Other Poems. He was also a prolific playwright. In 1923, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.