William Butler Yeats, the Nobel Prize-winning light of the Irish Literary Renaissance, had risen above his Irishness and was now a universal poet.

它说诺贝尔奖获得者威廉.巴特勒.叶芝，即点亮爱尔兰文学复兴之光的人，已经超越了其爱尔兰身份，是一名世界性的诗人。

Among these pillars of English literature were Jonathan Swift, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Edmund Burke.

在这些英语文学的巨擘中有乔纳森‧斯威夫特、威廉‧巴特勒‧叶芝、詹姆士‧乔伊斯、塞缪尔‧贝克特、奥斯卡‧王尔德、乔治‧萧伯纳以及埃德蒙‧伯克。

The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy — These are the opening lines of " The Song of the Happy Shepherd" by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet and author.

Arcady 的树林死了，它们古老的欢乐结束了——这是爱尔兰诗人和作家威廉·巴特勒·叶芝（1865-1939 年）的《快乐牧羊人之歌》的开场白。