W.B. Yeats

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, writing's highest distinction, W.B.Yeats is understandably one of the world's best-loved poets.

An incurable romantic with a rare sense of the practical, he came to be a leading light not only in the arts as poet, dramatist and founder of the Abbey Theatre, but also in the Senate.

His inspiration, beliefs and work continue to make their mark on the world today.