Are pre-duals dense if the duals are dense?

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Assume we have two Banach spaces $X,Y$ over $\mathbb R$ such that $X' \subset Y'$ is a dense subset (with respect to the norm of $Y'$). My question is: Is $Y \subset X$ a dense subset (with respect to the norm of $X$)?

Here, $X'$ denotes the dual space of $X$, i.e. all continuous linear functionals $T:X \longrightarrow \mathbb R$.

I am particularly interested in the example where $X' = W^{1,\infty}(\Omega)$ and $Y = L^1(\Omega)$ (so $Y' = L^\infty(\Omega)$).

As far as I know, there is no explicit characterisation of $X$.

Thank you guys very much in advance.