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The angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead. - William Butler Yeats Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. “A Cradle Song.”

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William Butler Yeats

Titles by William Butler Yeats:

• Autobiographies
• Leda and the Swan
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree

eNotes:

• William Butler Yeats (Autobiographies)
• William Butler Yeats (The Lake Isle of Innisfree)
• William Butler Yeats (Leda and the Swan)

Salem on History:

• William Butler Yeats

Encyclopedia:

• Yeats, William Butler (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Yeats, William Butler (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Yeats, William Butler (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)

Salem on Literature:

• William Butler Yeats (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• William Butler Yeats (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• William Butler Yeats (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• William Butler Yeats (Critical Survey of Drama)
• The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• The Second Coming Yeats, William Butler (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Yeats, William Butler (Poetry Criticism)
• Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• William Butler Yeats dies
• William Butler Yeats receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• William Butler Yeats publishes The Wind Among the Reeds
• William Butler Yeats is born