Famous Irish poet - Yeats
Yeats, Irish poet. His early works were of aestheticism and romanticism. Later works integrate realism, symbolism and philosophical thinking, using refined spoken language and symbolic techniques with rich meanings to express the contradictory unity of good and evil, life and death, beauty and ugliness, and spirit and body. His major works include "Wind in the Reeds", "Responsibility", etc. Winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. Yeats's poetic style is unique, absorbing the lyricism of romanticism and aestheticism without being excessive, and integrating the novelty and fantasy of modernism without losing obscurity. His lyrical works are even more unique because he describes his lifelong love affair with Maud Gonne. Deeply infectious.