W.B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

One of his poems was The Song of the Wandering Aengus. When Jonathan Archer could not get to sleep during his childhood, his mother Sally Archer would often recite the poem to him. He did not learn that it was by Yeats until he was much older.