William Butler Yeats was one of the foremost figures in 20th-century literature, renowned for his poetry, as well as his work as a literary critic and dramatist. This article explores his life and legacy.

William Butler Yeats is known to most as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. You might know that he was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, that he was an Irish nationalist, or that he had a longstanding unrequited love for his fellow activist Maud Gonne, but what many don’t know about him is the depth of his involvement in esoteric circles. While the influence of the occult is apparent in his work, it goes beyond surface level interest or simple fascination into a lifelong conviction and belief in magic and folklore.

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