William Butler Yeats
Yeats was a magnificent Irish poet and writer. He had much inspiration in the world around him. Nature was a big inspiration for him as evident in his poems:
However, also inspiring him were the local myths and legends. I had the pleasure of hearing of three of this local legends which inspired Yeats. These and many others were both written and passed on orally as a great part of the culture that Yeats grew up around and later wrote about.