Photo: George Charles Beresford (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

If you like William Butler Yeats, read these authors

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

Also known as: W. B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats, WBY, William Yeats, Уильям Батлер Йейтс, وليم بتلر ييتس

Similar authors

This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like William Butler Yeats, their data replaces the AI suggestions.

Seamus Heaney1939–2013
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Irish lyric poetry steeped in history, landscape and myth with rich sonic texture (AI reason)
Report
John Millington Synge1871–1909
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Irish Literary Revival drama drawing on peasant speech and folklore (AI reason)
Report
Augusta, Lady Gregory1852–1932
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Revival plays and retellings of Irish mythological cycles (AI reason)
Report
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
high modernist poetry of spiritual crisis and civilizational decline (AI reason)
Report
William Blake1757–1827
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
visionary, mystical poetry with a personal symbolic mythology (AI reason)
Report

Show all 10

Ezra Pound1885–1972
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
modernist verse blending myth, history and formal experimentation (AI reason)
Report
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Romantic lyricism with idealist and prophetic themes (AI reason)
Report
Rainer Maria Rilke1875–1926
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
symbolist-inflected meditations on art, mortality and transcendence (AI reason)
Report
Louis MacNeice1907–1963
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Irish-born lyric poetry engaging history, politics and personal reflection (AI reason)
Report
Patrick Kavanagh1904–1967
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Irish poetry of rural life and spiritual longing (AI reason)
Report

Pick William Butler Yeats and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.