ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -About the author William Butler Yeats (/ˈjeɪts/; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -His first solo publication was the pamphlet Mosada: A Dramatic Poem (1886), which comprised a print run of 100 copies paid for by his father. This was followed by the collection The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889), which arranged a series of verse that dated as far back as the mid-1880s.

Detailed explanation-3: -W. H. Auden’s “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (1939) is one of his most celebrated poems: it enjoys a critical reputation as the finest poetic elegy written in English in the twentieth century, a work that boldly recast the conventions of formal elegiac verse for a disenchanted modern age.